bugzilla has a set of fields, "hardware" and "operating system", that
i'll collectively call "platform" in this post. their default values
are detected from the reporter's user-agent string when a bug is created.
unfortunately on bmo, the platform fields have two distinctly different
meanings: the reporter's platform and the platform a bug applies to. for
too long have these two conflicting meanings coexisted within the same
field, leading to confusion and a field that on many bugs is wrong or
useless.
thanks to bug 579089 we plan on making the following changes early next
week:
* each product gains the ability to set their default platform
* the default platform for all products initially will be all / all
* a "use my platform" action will be added to enter-bug, allowing the
bug reporter to quickly change from the product's default
* a "from reporter" button will be visible when viewing untriaged bugs,
which sets the platform to the reporter's
--
byron jones - :glob - bugzilla.mozilla.org team lead -
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