Custom fields

[Myk Melez]

Christian Reis wrote:

>Hey, I've admined Bugzilla for Async for a couple of years now, for
>everything from Sales requests to Hardware trouble, and I have *never*
>wanted more fields - actually, the only thing that I *ever* wanted was
>*to remove fields*. Just my 2c. I guess other admins should chip in.
>Myk, what's the situation for beloved BMO?
>
As Gerv says, b.m.o has influenced Bugzilla too significantly to be able 
to say for sure, but I'm more interested in removing existing fields for 
products they don't apply to or users who don't care about them.

If I had my way, a patch that did that for all fields (or the ones that 
needed it most) would be more important than one implementing custom fields.

Since this is an open-source project, however, anyone is free to 
implement custom fields no matter what we say, in which case the 
question becomes what we're willing to do to make their lives easier, 
and I'm not sure the answer to that question is nothing.  Even if we 
decided not to take the patch, there are probably things we could do to 
make its co-existence with our codebase easier, and we should consider 
doing those things instead of washing our hands of the whole affair on 
the grounds that custom fields are a bad idea (which, for the record, I 
think they probably are).

-myk