Filing bugs

[Scott Kovatch]

On Jan 10, 2012, at 12:50 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:

> On 09/01/2012 23:35, Roger Lewis wrote:
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>> 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