bugzilla keywords

[Brian J. Tarricone]

On 09/20/04 14:35, Don Christensen wrote:
> 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.

guess our posts collided in mid-air - this is basically the intent of my
"needshelp" keyword.  what can i say, great minds... ^_~

> 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".

i think the "trivial" severity level is appropriate for this, though it won't
work when you want to mark the severity as "enhancement".  on a side note,
one (or both) of these are probably good candidates for my "common queries"
page.

man, my email volume is a bit high today...  slow day at work, it seems ^_~.

	-brian