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Bug 249506

Summary:	Deprecate Platform Update component
Product:	Community	Reporter:	John Arthorne <john.arthorne>
Component:	Bugzilla	Assignee:	Eclipse Webmaster <webmaster>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	pascal
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:

Description John Arthorne

2008-10-02 11:13:51 EDT

In Ganymede we largely replaced the original platform "Update Manager" with the new p2 platform in Equinox. In our current state, "Update Manager" is still in our builds in Galileo, but what 99% of end users see when they use the platform is p2.  The problem is that most users are still entering bugs against Platform Update in bugzilla rather than Equinox p2, which means a daily job of shifting most bugs over to the correct component (there are still a small number of valid bugs targeting Update Manager).

We'd like a way to indicate to casual bugzilla user that Platform Update is not the right place to report bugs. I'm not a bugzilla expert so I'm open to ideas on how to achieve this. The simplest would be to rename the component in bugzilla from "Update" to "Update (legacy)" or "Update (deprecated)". However I know you did something fancy for the "LATER" bug resolution so there might be a better way to do this.

Comment 1 Denis Roy

2008-10-06 15:02:55 EDT

'deprecated' works for me ... But you may also want to add threats to bug 244845 to help solve this problem.

Comment 2 John Arthorne

2008-10-06 19:32:57 EDT

Thanks Denis!

Comment 3 Pascal Rapicault

2008-10-07 09:40:34 EDT

Thx! To cut down the chase of the user, you may want to add RT in front of Equinox/p2 since the location of equinox under RT is far from being obvious.

Comment 4 John Arthorne

2008-10-07 11:27:23 EDT

Hm, I don't seem to be able to query for bugs in this component any more. Was the name of the component changed in the database, or just the text displayed on the query/enter_bug web page? This is a query for all platform update bugs, which turns up empty:

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&classification=Eclipse&product=Platform&component=Update+(deprecated%2C+see+Equinox%2Fp2)&long_desc_type=allwordssubstr&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&status_whiteboard=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&emailtype1=substring&email1=&emailtype2=substring&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&votes=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0=

Comment 5 Denis Roy

2008-10-08 08:49:57 EDT

I think the comma in the component name was causing nastiness.  I've renamed the component to Update (deprecated - see RT>Equinox>p2).  Queries work, although the component name is part of the query, so existing saved searches that simply used "Update" need to be updated.

Comment 6 John Arthorne

2008-10-08 09:34:01 EDT

Thanks, that seems to work.