[Cosmo-dev] Re: [Scooby-dev] Bugzilla components (Please add your comments)

[Mike Taylor]

On Aug 7, 2006, at 5:22 PM, Brian Moseley wrote:

> On 8/7/06, John Townsend <johntownsend at mac.com> wrote:
>
>> 1. We could just add "WebCal" or "Web Calendar" in front of the Scooby
>> Components and move them underneath Cosmo.
>> 2. We could attempt to merge some of categories that make sense
>> (Documentation, General for example)
>> 3. We could start over and completely design a new structure that 
>> matches
>> what we want going forward.
>
> i think #2 is the appropriate strategy. the cosmo components can be
> revisited, but for they most part they seem to work okay. i wouldn't
> just adopt the existing scooby ones wholesale though. they seem to be
> far too granular. i imagine it would be very confusing for somebody
> who is not an existing scooby developer to choose a component when
> submitting a bug report. i think there should be fewer components, and
> those that make the cut should correspond to major user-visible
> sections of the product, not to architectural or design components.

I agree with merging and removing extra categories that are not used.  
Any category that becomes necessary can be added in the future as 
needed.

Overthinking the categories now hardly ever works out in the long run.

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