On Tuesday 28 February 2006 13:58, Myk Melez wrote:

[Vlad Dascalu]

The biggest problem is reviewing, integrating and QA-ing such a large 
chunk of code.

Doing it one-step-at-a-time speeds up the process, at least that was the 
direction in which we were going with this, last time I checked.

Vlad

Gregary Hendricks wrote:
> On Tuesday 28 February 2006 13:58, Myk Melez wrote:
>   
>> Thanks all for your feedback.  Based on what you've told me and my
>>     
> own
>   
>> sense of the project, I've roughly prioritized tasks into the
>>     
> following
>   
>> list, where the tasks appearing earlier are higher priority:
>>
>>     1. custom fields appearance on search, bug list, change multiple
>>        bugs, long list, and printable pages;
>>     2. ability to list and delete custom fields via the
>>     
> command-line;
>   
>>     3. boolean fields;
>>     4. web interface for managing custom fields;
>>     5. ability to position fields at arbitrary places on the edit
>>        bug page;
>>     6. type-constrained plain-text fields;
>>     7. single-select fields;
>>     8. user fields;
>>     9. bug fields;
>>    10. multi-select fields;
>>    11. date fields;
>>    12. ability to restrict fields to specific product/component
>>        combinations;
>>    13. ability to restrict fields to specific user groups;
>>    14. multi-user fields;
>>    15. multi-bug fields.
>>
>>     
>
> I am curious about something. At bugzilla.novell.com we implemented a
> custom 
> field patch some time ago. We got the code from one of the custom patch
> bugs, 
> made it into a module, and have been using it since day one. Of the 15
> things 
> listed here it does almost everything but the command line interface
> (at least 
> for bugs). It has a GUI interface for managing the fields, which show
> up in all
> the places listed. And though we don't have support for user fields
> (not sure 
> what is meant by that), it would probably not be too hard to extend. 
> We offered it back but were told that was not the direction Bugzilla
> was going. 
> This was back in the days we had the raging debate over custom field
> implementation.  
> So my question is, has there been a change of direction? 
> Because this seems to be exactly what we have already.
>
> Greg Hendricks
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