On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote:
> You can see our current Bugzilla taxonomy here: > > https://issues.apache.org/ooo/describecomponents.cgi > > We have around 50 top-level "products" and within that each product > has one or more "components". > > Users, as well as new-volunteers, are confused by the 50 products. > For example, it is not at all clear to them where cross-cutting > concerns go, e.g., crashes that occur across applications, like the > profile corruption issue. > > Also, some of the "products" are not really dealing with the code of > the product, but are project related areas like "qa", "www", > "user-faq" or "education". > > Bugzilla has an option that we can enable that would add an additional > level to the hierarchy, called "categories". A category contains > products, which contain components. > > Is there any interest in having categories enabled? > OK...I am confused here. When I log in to BZ right now, and click "File a Bug" I am automatically shown this list, so it appears they are already enabled, and I must chose a category. And then, there's components inside of the categories. At any rate...it would better I think to reduce/combine categories in some way though it would take some time to figure out what/how to combine without losing existing information. But personally, I've wondered about this list for a while. I'm sure end-users have problems with it though. > > Advantage: > > -- Can have a cleaner, easier-to-use taxonomy. We could clearly > separate product-related from project-related products. We could make > it easier for users to find the application-level category and enter > their bugs there. > > -- Easier to generate reports and statistics on QA status. Typically > we want to know how many new/open/critical bugs exist for the product, > not for the website or other non-product areas. > > Disadvantage: > > An additional mouse click when entering new bugs, though it might > actually be faster since user would not need to search through a list > of 50 products to find the one they want. > > Regards, > > -Rob > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MzK "A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage." -- Sydney Smith
