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| Summary: | Remove/combine stale OS fields? | ||
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| Product: | Community | Reporter: | Gorkem Ercan <gorkem.ercan> |
| Component: | Bugzilla | Assignee: | Eclipse Webmaster <webmaster> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | P3 | CC: | david_williams, denis.roy, ed, marc.khouzam, markus.kell.r, matthias.sohn, mjmeijer, mknauer |
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | All | ||
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Description
Gorkem Ercan
Thanks for the house cleaning. Indeed, there were no bugs attached to that OS, so I've removed it. Perhaps we can also combine all these into ... Windows 95/98/2000/NT/XP/Me -> Windows Legacy I'll ask the audience. +1 All for it, the web interface I am looking at right now for this bug doesn't even show the OS. Do we require OS information at all, or only in a few obscure cases. Mylyn defaults to the user OS, but that can be overridden to All in Preferences. See https://eclip.se/159397 I think many reported bugs contain an OS setting that will turn out to be not relevant for fixing the bug. (In reply to Denis Roy from comment #2) > Perhaps we can also combine all these into ... > > Windows 95/98/2000/NT/XP/Me -> Windows Legacy > > I'll ask the audience. +1 Roll all the Windows into one. One recent Windows 8.1 Bugzilla of mine was auto-detected as Vista so it seems the detector is broken anyway. I almost never look at the OS field. When the OS actually matters, it will probably form part of the discussion. +1 for combining them... (In reply to Denis Roy from comment #2) > Perhaps we can also combine all these into ... > > Windows 95/98/2000/NT/XP/Me -> Windows Legacy > > I'll ask the audience. Is this "combining in the UI" .. which, I'd be in favor of. (That is, they all map to "one line" named "Windows Legacy". If it means to "change the original database" ... then ... I better abstain as I always hate to "change data" to "correct UI" ... but, can not honestly say I personally would ever have a need to know/search for the different versions. If the data itself is changed, maybe a comment could be left behind such as "was in Windows 95 category but moved to windows Legacy in 2015" ... at least then "Widows 95" is still, somewhat, associated with the bug. (In reply to Ed Willink from comment #5) > I almost never look at the OS field. > > When the OS actually matters, it will probably form part of the discussion. Same here. +1 > When the OS actually matters, it will probably form part of the discussion. I tend to agree as well. Merging all the Windows into one big Windows OS would make sense. Same with Linux. (In reply to David Williams from comment #7) > If the data itself is changed, maybe a comment could be left behind Bugzilla tracks everything via History: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_activity.cgi?id=454824 ... but apparently not the platform and OS. Sorry for the noise, indeed that info is stored in plain text in the History, so even if we change/merge the field values, the history will be correct (ie, it will remember "Windows 95", not "os_id=19" Actually, and probably even better: Bugzilla has a checkbox called "Enabled for bugs" that I can uncheck.. That way old bugs can retain their old values, nothing needs to be merged and the drop-down list us much cleaner. I've axed away everything that I think is old and stale. |