Feature Request: More customizable terms

[Jake]

Forgot to mention a step:

7. Edit the .css file for buglist and change "bz_enhancement" to "bz_NFR"

> Just to chime in with my $0.02 here, while I do see a lot of debate in
> this bug on customzing terms via the template, I'm gonna ignore that
> general discussion and kinda swing this in a slightly different
> direction. The particular request being made here, IMHO, should not be
> solved in this manner at all. I'm writing this message offline so I don't
> have the ability to search for it, but it seems like there's a bug out
> there somewhere about making it easier to customize these drop-downs. I
> believe it also has to do with removing the enums from Bugzilla
> altogether. While that wouldn't solve everybody's problems (like people
> who want to rename OS or Product, it would solve this particular issue
> quite nicely.
>
> And as to your question about the gray state of enhancements in buglist.
> That depends a lot on how you make the change. If you hack the code quite
> serverly to simple add something like:
>
> <option value="enhancement">NFR</option>
>
>
> in order to keep storage and are careful about what other changes you
> make for display issues... I suppose that would be one way, but not the
> way I'd recommend.
>
> Again, I have no refrences handy as I write this, but as I recall the
> best way to change this follows. I'm gonna assume that you already have a
> database with some bugs set to enhancement. 1. Go localconfig and add
> "NFR" to the appropriate array
> 2. Re-run ./checksetup.pl
> 3. Go to Bugzilla and do a query for all bugs w/the enhancement severity
> 4. Do a mass change on this buglist and set the severity to NFR
> 5. Go back to localconfig and remove "enhancement" from that array
> 6. Re-run ./checksetup.pl
>
>
> If you don't have any bugs already possesing the "enhancement" severity,
> you can skip steps 2, 3, and 4.  Also, if you do have "enhancement" bugs,
> you can do steps 3 and 4 via the database directly, but don't ask me how
> offhand :)
>
>> I'd like to be able to customize more of the terms shown in Bugzilla.
>> Specifically, we'd like to be able to have "enhancement" show up as NFR
>> (New
>> Feature Request) without changing how it's actually stored and having to
>>  change every place where it's referenced in the CGI scripts.  The term
>>  NFR,
>> besides being what our staff is used to calling them, fits better on the
>>  bug lists.
>>
>> I like how you can customize the term "bug" by editing one template
>> file. If we could just put more terms there and have the templates use
>> them, that would be great.  Especially the enums from the database.
>>
>> Note, I'm using 2.18rc3.  Maybe this has already been done in 2.19.1?
>> I
>> read that more is being templatized, so maybe my wish has already been
>> granted.
>>
>> -- Dave Williss
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