On Jan 10, 2012, at 12:50 AM, Alan Bateman wrote: > On 09/01/2012 23:35, Roger Lewis wrote: >> >> >> It would be useful bugs being being submitted to bugs.sun.com related to >> this project team to have a term at the beginning of the synopsis that would >> help identify it as a bug related to the project. This would be similar to >> how a keyword functions for querying purposes. Can I suggest "macosxport"? >> example synopis: macosxport: user locale and user interface locale...... > The only thing is that conflicts with conventions used in other areas, the > core area in particular where the area of interest is at the beginning of the > synopsis to make long lists of bugs sortable by synopsis. Where bugs are > platform specific then the convention has been to put it at end of the > synopsis. That said, there is an operating system field and maybe whoever > moves this bugs to the right place can fix that up?
I agree that pseudo-keywords aren't a good long-term solution. The short-term problem is that if you select Mac OS X we don't even allow the bug to be submitted on the assumption that it should go to Apple's bug reporting system. I think once that behavior is changed we can use the OS field as intended and then we won't need any synopsis hacking. I know I'm setting Mac OS X when I use Bugster. -- Scott
