[Dev] Last call: bugzilla components proposal

[Andi Vajda]

On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, Katie Capps Parlante wrote:

> The current decision is to use bugzilla to track tasks as well as bugs. The 
> app team has been using bugzilla this way for nearly a year 
> (http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Projects/BugzillaTracking) and most 
> of the platform team has agreed to try using bugzilla this way for 0.7. 
> Tracking bugs and tasks in one instance of bugzilla allows us to track the 
> work in one place, one of the reasons we chose to do this even though 
> bugzilla has some flaws as a task tracker.
>
> Given that decision, we need the components to support our work. I'm 
> confident that we can come up with a reasonable set of components that 
> support both tasks and bugs. I understand that you respectfully disagree with 
> using bugzilla for task tracking, but as it is working reasonably well for 
> the apps team, we're going to go with the group decision.

I'm not objecting to people using bugzilla for tracking tasks as opposed to 
bugs. What I'm objecting to is creating components that would baffle regular 
chandler users or anyone not familiar with Chandler's development tasks when 
all they want to do is file a normal bug.
I understand that creating two bugzilla instances is unpractical. How about 
creating task-tracking specific components and suffix their name with '_task' 
so that users filing a real bug can ignore them ?

Andi..

>
> Cheers,
> Katie
>
> Andi Vajda wrote:
>> 
>> On Sat, 18 Feb 2006, Philippe Bossut wrote:
>> 
>>>> I would say that you should not create components until there are
>>>> actually bugs for that piece of code you are thinking about creating a
>>>> component for. And there should be several bugs (I'd say at least 10
>>>> bugs) and even then we should be reasonably sure that the piece of code
>>>> is not going away anytime soon.
>>>> 
>>> I have to disagree here: we are trying to identify the new components we 
>>> need so that we can start logging tasks in Bugzilla. This happens before 
>>> we have code written for the component so, arguably, before we even have 1 
>>> bug...
>> 
>> Bugzilla != Taskzilla. The components should be organized in a way that 
>> makes it easy for users to file bugs against existing code.
>> 
>> If we're really bent on using bugzilla for keeping track of development 
>> tasks instead of just bugs how about creating a second bugzilla 
>> installation where the components are designed for that purpose ?
>> 
>> Andi..
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