On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 10:55 PM, Krinkle krinklemail@gmail.com wrote:
TL;DR: Reduce number of fields in our BugZilla. Simplify access to search filters.
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I'm convinced all other fields can be done without and removing them will improve the workflow of the developers and the Bugmeister. Including, but not limited to:
- Platform (Hardware/OS)
I agree on platform. As an example, I decided to take a look at the bugs set with Platform = HP this morning.
There were 31 bugs with this platform set. Most had the OS set to Windows, so what they really meant as the platform is a PC (HP in this case refers to HP servers/mainframes). Several more were definitely bugs that applied to All platforms. There were only about 3 or 4 that were actually applying to HP-specific hardware issues that weren't PCs. Since this value seems to be so unused (and largely misused), I recategorized these 31 bugs and deleted HP from the platform field.
A small victory, I suppose.
-Chad