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Matty wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 00:04 +0000, Gervase Markham wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I'd say that the SW, keywords and flags all occupy different niches. You
couldn't replace any one with one of the others.
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There's only one niche to occupy, with the possible exception of +/-
designations, but even that shouldn't warrant a wholly different system.
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I agree that keywords and flags should be merged, and summary markings
should be discouraged. I'm not as sure about meta-bugs, given the
utility of dependency trees, although I see your point, especially for
certain of them.<br>
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I disagree about the status whiteboard, however, which is fundamentally
different from keywords and flags in that any minimally privileged user
can create arbitrary tags in it. We need that capability, and we'd
have to support that in any tag system that superceded it, but since
the status whiteboard field works OK for this at the moment, I wouldn't
make its supercession a priority.<br>
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-myk<br>
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