Moore, Joe writes:
> Keywords: boston-reviewed | boston-rr-doc | boston-waiver-approved | e1000g | 
> seabos-res-plan | seabos-rp-fix-s10u3 | seabos-sqo-reviewed | seattle-rr-doc 
> | seattle-waiver-list
> -- Other than "e1000g", all of the keywords appear to be documenting the 
> workflow of moving this bugfix into Solaris, rather than OpenSolaris, and 
> certainly nothing that would match any sane keyword search for a problem I'm 
> having.

I'm afraid "keywords" aren't actually used in bugster (our bug
tracking system) the way you might otherwise expect.  Ordinary
searches are done using full-text, as it's faster and more accurate to
do that anyway, because ordinary mortals fail to identify the "right"
keywords in all cases.

Instead, "keywords" in bugster are used to group bugs together for
special purposes, such as "all bugs affecting this platform" or "all
bugs that need to be fixed in this release."  They _intentionally_
have nothing to do with the bug contents, and are instead used for
relational calculus.

Of that list of "keywords," it's actually "e1000g" that's incorrect
here.  That's not a proper grouping, as the bug is *in* e1000g.

> And finally, the crowning achievement of bug clarity:
> Description: See Comments

That's specifically not allowed.  The person who did that was doing
something incorrect with the bug system.

There are several fields available in bugster for text; two of them
are "Description" and "Comments."  The description of the bug *MUST*
go in the "Description" field.  Anything else (with some rare
security-related exceptions) is a usage error.  The "Comments" are not
displayed externally, and usually contain things like customer names,
telephone numbers, and other such unrelated commentary.

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