Custom fields

[Arvind Singh]

I believe we could add a limited no of empty fields and let the bugzilla adminsitrator have the privilege to define those empty fields for their. Each company ahs a different set of requirement. I believe instead of being rigid we should provide flexibilty in the usage and administration of bugzilla.On the bugzilla newsgroups everyday we get requests for custom fields. As mentioned earlier some time adding custom fields may become confusing but we should give the flexibility and let the bugzilla users decide whether he wants to use that or not. 
This will allow admins to create custom fields while still keeping things under control as only
fixed numbe of empty fields are provided.

Arvind.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Myk Melez [mailto:myk at mozilla.org]
> Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 12:55 PM
> To: developers at bugzilla.org
> Subject: Re: Custom fields
> 
> 
> 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
> 
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