Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Bugzilla proposal: change some fields to better suit our need

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From: Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 22:38:48 +0200
Gerald Combs wrote:

>It's pretty difficult to add new fields to Bugzilla.  You fake them by
>adding them to the initial comment:
>
>    http://www.gerv.net/hacking/custom-fields.html
>
>You can also rename them.  Having separate "Priority" and "Severity"
>choices seems odd.  What if we were to leave "Priority" as-is, and
>rename "Severity" to "Type", with the following choices:
>
>Bug
>Enhancement/Wish List
>Patch
>
>  
>
Sounds like a good idea. We could add more choices if we recognize any
missing ones later.

>  
>
>>>IMO the Documentation is a component of Ethereal and not a severity thing?!?
>>>      
>>>
>>This makes me rethink the component stuff again. On second thought I don't think
>>it's necessary to do this component stuff at all. Will most users know what to
>>fill in? Do the developers need this? In case you haven't noticed: I'm a fan of
>>as few fields as possible :-)
>>    
>>
>
>Ack.
>  
>
I was thinking of the WishList items we currently have. I thought we
want to move the WishList items to the bug tracker, so we might *need*
components to bring some form. Otherwise we would end up in an
unformatted list of Enhancement items which is already very long and
still may grow in the future.

Regards, ULFL