that's useful thanks. I think the word amnesty implied the death penalty for existing whiteboard tags.
what it sounds like is you're just offering (for a limited time) to do conversions on an opt-in basis? That's great. -P On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 3:11 PM, Emma Humphries <e...@mozilla.com> wrote: > > > > On Jun 8, 2016, at 1:43 PM, Kartikaya Gupta <kgu...@mozilla.com> wrote: > > > > What happens after June 24? Is the whiteboard field going to be removed? > > > > No, the whiteboard field remains, but any tags migrated will be deleted > from existing values. > > If a tag is used across teams, I'll work out a resolution such as both > teams using the new keyword, or specific keywords as long as they don't > semantically copy other existing fields. > > > >> On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 4:32 PM, Emma Humphries <e...@mozilla.com> > wrote: > >> tl;dr -- nominate whiteboard tags you want converted to keywords. Do it > by > >> 24 June 2016. > >> > >> We have a love-hate relationship with the whiteboard field in bugzilla. > On > >> one hand, we can add team-specific meta data to a bug. On the other > hand, > >> it's not a indexed field or a real tag system, making it hard to parse, > >> search, and update. > >> > >> But creating keywords is a hassle since you have to request them. > >> > >> The long term solution is to turn whiteboard into proper tag system, but > >> the Bugzilla Team's offering to help with some bulk conversion of > >> whiteboard tags your teams use into keywords. > >> > >> To participate: > >> > >> 1. Create a Bug in the bugzilla.mozilla.org::Administration component > for each > >> whiteboard tag you want to convert. > >> > >> 2. The bug's description should have the old keyword, the new keyword > you > >> want to replace it with, and the description of this new keyword which > will > >> appear in the online help. > >> > >> 3. Make sure your keyword doesn't conflict with existing keywords, so be > >> prepared to rename it. If your keyword is semantically similar to an > >> existing keyword or other existing bugzilla field we'll talk you about a > >> mass change to your bugs. > >> > >> 4. Make the parent bug, > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1279022, > >> depend on your new bug. > >> > >> 5. CC Emma Humphries on the bug > >> > >> We will turn your whiteboard tag into a keyword and remove your old tag > >> from the whiteboard tags, so make sure your dashboards and other tools > that > >> consume Bugzilla's API are updated to account for this. > >> > >> Please submit your whiteboard fields to convert by Friday 24 June 2016. > >> > >> Cheers, > >> > >> Emma Humphries > >> _______________________________________________ > >> dev-platform mailing list > >> dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > >> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ > firefox-dev mailing list > firefox-...@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/firefox-dev > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
