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Again, not necessarily the average programmer. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> One or both could be checked for any particular bug. +</I>>><i> Thus facilitating a search for bugs based on these flags. +</I>>><i> Those wanting to ignore such bugs could equally avoid seeing them. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> This would tend to facilitate the correction of such bugs, which tend to be lost and not corrected for long periods of time. +</I>>><i> (At least that is the case with Mandriva, and much other free/open source software.) +</I>>><i> (e.g.1: A number of French translations.) +</I>>><i> (e.g.2: Much documentation is essentially useless to the uninitiated.) +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> However, in my view, documentation and translation bugs would also tend to be reported by different people than those who would report function bugs. +</I>>><i> So it would be useful if such flags were to appear on this initial page, as well on the main bug entry page. +</I>>><i> Something like +</I>>><i> "This bug concerns [ ]documentation ... [ ]translation ..." +</I>>><i> With whatever other factors, such as security, on which we decide to focus. +</I>>><i> With whatever boxes are checked carried over automatically to the main bug entry page. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I am working on a script intended to make it easyer to report bugs usefully. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Technically, would these flags be new fields, +</I>><i> or standardized entries in the Keywords field, +</I>><i> such as NEEDINFO in the present Mandriva bugzilla ? +</I> +Just verified with bugzilla to make sure. + +Documentation and translations are listed as options under "components". +However any such bug could also be associated with another component, +such as "core packages" or "release media". +We could even have translation bugs of documentation. + +So it would seem better if these were independant flags, instead of options. +It that case they would be new fields. + +As for security, there are already 2 such flags, at the bottom of the +main bug entry page. (Under the title "privacy".) +Checking either of these flags will cause a bug to be hidden from most +users, as explained beside the check boxes. +(For this reason, it would be better to _not_ duplicate these particular +flags elsewhere.) + +see <A HREF="https://qa.mandriva.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Mandriva">https://qa.mandriva.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Mandriva</A> +Linux&format=guided + +Good luck with your script :) + +André +</PRE> + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="002000.html">[Mageia-dev] New bugzilla proposal +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="002003.html">[Mageia-dev] New bugzilla proposal +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#2001">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#2001">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#2001">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#2001">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |