bugzilla keywords

[Don Christensen]

Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I really like the new bugzilla. My hope is we can use it to better keep 
> track of feature requests as well as regular bugs. I think it will be 
> better suited for this than mantis.
> 
> Anyway, I added the first keyword: patch . We could think of more as we 
> go along to help us categorise the reports. Earlier I suggested easy-fix 
> to help possible contributors to find a place to start working. I don't 
> know if that happens often enough though -- easy fixes tend to get fixed 
> quickly...
> 
> Any other ideas?

I can't think of a good name, but it would be good to have a category or
keyword for those requests that would normally get a response from the
developers of "that sounds great, send us a patch and we'll evaluate it
from there".  The users making such requests aren't always in a position
to do any coding, so perhaps some other non-core developer would be
interested in picking it up.

Also, it might be useful to have a "minor" or "cosmetic" category/keyword
for things that a core developer might get around to eventually if they
get bored, but isn't bad enough to need an immediate fix (in other words,
does not adversely affect functionality).  Wanna-be developers could start
with these types of bugs.  This is similar to but not quite the same as
"easy-fix".

-Don

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Don Christensen       Senior Software Development Engineer
djc at cisco.com         Cisco Systems, Santa Cruz, CA
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