On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Chad <innocentkil...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 10:55 PM, Krinkle <krinklem...@gmail.com> wrote: >> TL;DR: Reduce number of fields in our BugZilla. Simplify access to search >> filters. >> >> [snip] >> >> I'm convinced all other fields can be done without and removing them will >> improve the workflow of the developers and the Bugmeister. Including, but not >> limited to: >> - Platform (Hardware/OS) >> > > I agree on platform. As an example, I decided to take a look at > the bugs set with Platform = HP this morning. > > There were 31 bugs with this platform set. Most had the OS set > to Windows, so what they really meant as the platform is a PC > (HP in this case refers to HP servers/mainframes). Several more > were definitely bugs that applied to All platforms. There were only > about 3 or 4 that were actually applying to HP-specific hardware > issues that weren't PCs. Since this value seems to be so unused > (and largely misused), I recategorized these 31 bugs and deleted > HP from the platform field. > > A small victory, I suppose. > > -Chad
Wut, there are MediaWiki installations runing on HP-UX? And we have developers equipped to work on bugs for that platform? _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
