On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 10:55 PM, Krinkle <[email protected]> wrote: > TL;DR: Reduce number of fields in our BugZilla. Simplify access to search > filters. > > [snip] > > I'm convinced all other fields can be done without and removing them will > improve the workflow of the developers and the Bugmeister. Including, but not > limited to: > - Platform (Hardware/OS) >
I agree on platform. As an example, I decided to take a look at the bugs set with Platform = HP this morning. There were 31 bugs with this platform set. Most had the OS set to Windows, so what they really meant as the platform is a PC (HP in this case refers to HP servers/mainframes). Several more were definitely bugs that applied to All platforms. There were only about 3 or 4 that were actually applying to HP-specific hardware issues that weren't PCs. Since this value seems to be so unused (and largely misused), I recategorized these 31 bugs and deleted HP from the platform field. A small victory, I suppose. -Chad _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
