Re: Target Milestone field in bugzilla

2014-01-16 Thread Daniel Veditz
On 1/9/2014 9:47 AM, Gavin Sharp wrote: In theory (mine at least), the field is free to be used for planning which release you want the bug fixed in, before the bug is fixed. After the bug is fixed, it should be used as you describe. Some groups do use the field this way, for example the NSS

Re: Target Milestone field in bugzilla

2014-01-16 Thread Chris Hofmann
On 1/16/14 11:36 AM, Daniel Veditz wrote: On 1/9/2014 9:47 AM, Gavin Sharp wrote: In theory (mine at least), the field is free to be used for planning which release you want the bug fixed in, before the bug is fixed. After the bug is fixed, it should be used as you describe. Some groups do use

Re: Target Milestone field in bugzilla

2014-01-14 Thread dklawren
On Friday, January 10, 2014 4:56:45 PM UTC-5, David Lawrence wrote: Currently Bugzilla does not support relabeling of fields in the UI based on some criteria. They are pretty well hard coded with the names. It would be a non-trivial amount of work to add the support and it would definitely

Re: Target Milestone field in bugzilla

2014-01-14 Thread dklawren
After some discussion with other BMO devs, how about this proposal? We add a (info) link next to the Milestone label on the show_bug.cgi page that has some custom documentation explaining the purpose of the field for the selected product? We can make the text different for different products as

Re: Target Milestone field in bugzilla

2014-01-14 Thread Kartikaya Gupta
That sounds pretty reasonable to me. Cheers, kats On 14-01-14 10:59 , dklaw...@gmail.com wrote: After some discussion with other BMO devs, how about this proposal? We add a (info) link next to the Milestone label on the show_bug.cgi page that has some custom documentation explaining the

Re: Target Milestone field in bugzilla

2014-01-10 Thread David Lawrence
On 01/09/2014 12:47 PM, Gavin Sharp wrote: It should be possible to have the field label change only for a specific set of products, in theory. Having the ability to customize on a per-product basis like this would make a lot of these proposals easier. I think we should ask our b.m.o devs

Target Milestone field in bugzilla

2014-01-09 Thread Kartikaya Gupta
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. However, I've seen many people mistake

Re: Target Milestone field in bugzilla

2014-01-09 Thread Gavin Sharp
(It's probably a good idea scope this discussion to common practice in the Firefox components i.e. Core/Firefox/Toolkit/etc. Bugzilla discussions like this one can get into the weeds pretty quickly when people bring up other projects who use our Bugzilla installation and who have different

Re: Target Milestone field in bugzilla

2014-01-09 Thread Chris Peterson
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.

Re: Target Milestone field in bugzilla

2014-01-09 Thread Dave Townsend
On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 9:53 AM, Chris Peterson cpeter...@mozilla.comwrote: 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

Re: Target Milestone field in bugzilla

2014-01-09 Thread Ryan VanderMeulen
On 1/9/2014 12:53 PM, Chris Peterson wrote: 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

Re: Target Milestone field in bugzilla

2014-01-09 Thread Gavin Sharp
I'm sure there are other use cases, but the most common one for me is using it to sort out tracking flags for regressions and otherwise complicated dependency trees. Gavin On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 9:53 AM, Chris Peterson cpeter...@mozilla.com wrote: On 1/9/14, 7:17 AM, Kartikaya Gupta wrote: I