Newer custom fields patch

[Ludovic Dubost]

Hi Sean and the list,

I'm currently looking at your new custom fields patch and have some 
questions about it.
First, We are using at our company the custom fields patch in bug 91037 
on an older bugzilla version.
Since we want to customize the interface much more than allowed in the 
older bugzilla versions, we are looking to switch to the more recent 
versions.

Since your patch seems to be designed with templates and integrated in 
v. 2.17.4, I'm quite interested in it.
So the first question would be:

- what's the chance to see this patch in a mainstream release of 
bugzilla ? (2.19 ?)
- how far away from primetime is this patch to be at least usable and 
minimize the migration work to the mainstream release ?
- is it already possible to use 'global' fields and 'group fields' 
associated to multiple products ? It seems the admin interface is not 
complete on this part, but is the rest of the code ok if I modify the 
database directly ?
- have you planned any migration from the older custom field patch ?
- how can I help ?

Also, I'm thinking about some enhancements which would be needed for 
additional features we need to build.

Let me explain:

- We are using bugzilla not only as a bug tracking tool, but more 
generally as a task tracking tool as well as a project management tool.
- In particular we would need to have a notion of project which would 
have additional fields (and some hidden) and where the dependency tree 
would get a proeminent place..

I see that this patch has an interesting architecture that could help:

- If I add a generic field for bug types: bug, task, issue, idea, 
project, other
  -> this could be a general field
  -> or a custom field itself
- If I add a notion of custom fields linked to the specific values of a 
field
- I would need also to add the ability to have specific visualisation 
and search templates for types of bugs.
   -> Standard templates for everything
   -> Specific SHOW/EDIT/SEARCH templates for 'project' bugs
-> Modification of the Home Page and  Footers to have a specific entry 
view for projects.

Let me know what you think and if you don't think this is too crazy ?
Anyway, great job on the patch..

Ludovic

Sean McAfee wrote:

>Attached is a patch against bugzilla-2.17.4 that provides custom field
>capabilities.  It's the same as my previous custom fields patch, with the
>addition of query functionality.
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>Querying custom fields using boolean charts is not yet possible, but it
>shouldn't be too difficult to add.
>
>All of my previous comments/warnings apply.  Comments welcome.
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