Are the platform fields actually useful? Most bugs apply to all platforms and in the cases that don't it is normally clear from the bug conversation that it is platform specific. It seems like we rarely go an update the platform fields to match the actual state of the bug. And then there is the problem that OS doesn't allow for multi-selections where say a bug affects a few versions of Windows or Windows and OSX. I've gotten used to just ignoring these fields and reading the bugs instead. I wouldn't feel any loss if they were just removed from display entirely.
On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 8:17 AM, Byron Jones <g...@mozilla.com> wrote: > bugzilla has a set of fields, "hardware" and "operating system", that i'll > collectively call "platform" in this post. their default values are > detected from the reporter's user-agent string when a bug is created. > > unfortunately on bmo, the platform fields have two distinctly different > meanings: the reporter's platform and the platform a bug applies to. for > too long have these two conflicting meanings coexisted within the same > field, leading to confusion and a field that on many bugs is wrong or > useless. > > thanks to bug 579089 we plan on making the following changes early next > week: > > * each product gains the ability to set their default platform > > * the default platform for all products initially will be all / all > > * a "use my platform" action will be added to enter-bug, allowing the bug > reporter to quickly change from the product's default > > * a "from reporter" button will be visible when viewing untriaged bugs, > which sets the platform to the reporter's > > > -- > byron jones - :glob - bugzilla.mozilla.org team lead - > > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
