Bugzilla as a task management tool

[Christopher Hicks]

On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, David Miller wrote:

> 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".

I agree totally.  I'll dig in.

Can I start a new bug for this so we don't have to keep wading through the
comments in the old one?

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