Custom fields design doc

[Bradley Baetz]

On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 08:44:23PM +0100, Gervase Markham wrote:
> The problem with your old idea, should you be interested, is that it 
> assumes a Bugzilla will only be used in one language at once.

> - A localiser should be able to create a tarball which, when unzipped,
>   places files which totally enable a Bugzilla for their language.
> - An admin should be able to unzip said tarball, add the code for the
>   language to a param, and all of Bugzilla starts working in that
>   language, as well as the ones it currently works in.
> - Bugzilla can be used at the same time by different people in different
>   languages.

We still haven't come up with a way to handle admin specified things
such as product names in this way. Custom field descriptions fall into
the same category, in that a localiaser cannot proivde them, since
they're specified by the admin. A template which the admin modifies ahs
the disadvantage that its not web editable. We're probably going to have
to end up wuth a {language,type,id,text} table at some point.

Bradley