On 1/9/14 9:53 AM, Chris Peterson wrote:
On 1/9/14, 7:17 AM, Kartikaya Gupta wrote:
I think the "Target Milestone" field is poorly named, at least with
respect to what we use it for. In practice this field is set to the
version of m-c on which the patches originally landed, and doesn't
change when patches are uplifted to other branches.
What is the use case for "Target Milestone" (in the "Patches Landed
In" sense)? As you point out, the Target Milestone is not updated if a
fix is uplifted, so Target Milestone does not even represent the first
Gecko release that contains the fix. That information would be useful.
The status-firefoxXX=fixed fields can do that now.
Having a "Release We Would Like To Fix This Bug In" field might be
useful for project scheduling,
That's exactly what the field was created for and used for many years ago.
It was mostly used for feature planning, but also extended to general
bug fixing.
with groups of bugs in different "Target Milestone buckets" it was a bit
easier to see if work for a release target was over committed a lot
earlier in the planning, and re-triage was need to move work off to
future milestones or redistribute the work load.
but teams have (or are investigating) better project planning tools
outside of Bugzilla. So the current meaning of "Target Milestone" does
not seem very useful.
I'd hope that what ever system interacts well bugzilla to avoid
redundancy and systems getting out of synch.
Similarly, Bugzilla's "Priority" and "Severity" fields are ostensibly
for project planning, but these fields are rarely used. Their intent
is also better served by other project planning tools.
maybe. if evaluations of a bug for these attributes needs to happen
during the triage process then you might just be creating tracking in
interactions with two systems during triage. that seems complicated.
chris
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