Custom fields

[Christian Reis]

On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 02:23:16AM +1100, Bradley Baetz wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 02:54:50PM +0000, Gervase Markham wrote:
> > Asking b.m.o. is a bit dodgy, because historically, b.m.o.'s 
> > requirements have controlled what fields there are. However, the only 
> > field which I think is not really generic is URL. So, here's an 
> > alternative question: how would b.m.o. cope without the URL field?
> 
> 'Really badly'. Its a bug tracking system for a webbrowser; providing
> url links are sort of important...

Sorta evil, but you see this really shows how the application domain can
influence directly the need for specific fields. Is a webbrowser special
in this respect? I don't know.

Can we get other examples?

Take care,
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Christian Reis, Senior Engineer, Async Open Source, Brazil.
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