Bugzilla as a task management tool

[David Miller]

On 7/11/2003 10:56 AM -0400, Christopher Hicks wrote:

> On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, David Miller wrote:
>> See bug 9412.  http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9412
>
> The latest patch there is a year old.  If this were revived and updated to
> the current code is there any chance it might be committed at the
> beginning of the next development cycle?  When is the feature freeze
> expected to be over approximately?  Does anyone want to give any
> suggestions before I embark on such a thing?  Incidentally, does anyone
> have a few hundred bugs in bugzilla to use for setting up a development
> bugzilla?

I think the original thing that kind of stalled the idea a year or so ago
was the thought that it could probably be tied in with custom fields.  I
think this is a specific enough concept, and one that's likely to wind up
with code hard-coded around it once it exists (see the "graying out" of
enhancements in buglists, for example) that it makes sense to implement it
directly.

Another one of the complaints was that "it gives you one more thing to
worry about when you file a bug, thus making bug-filing that much more
difficult."  I also know that at the time, the template system wasn't
anywhere near as matured as it is now.  I think it would be perfectly
feasible (but not necessarily necessary) to hide that field from the UI in
many places, and use a different template format to enter/view a record
based on its classification type.  The default format would of course have
the UI to choose the type, but you could change the filing links to point
specifically to that format (&format=enhreq or &format=bugrep) and get UI
tailored to it to get around the "one more thing to worry about when filing
a bug" argument.  Having the separate formats for different types I don't
think would be necessary to get this checked in, but it's something that
can be kept in mind and added later if people complain about "one more
thing to worry about".
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