On 4/14/2015 11:40 AM, Dave Townsend wrote:
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.
I've suggested this before (and still think that's the right user experience). In fact this turns out to be really difficult to do within bugzilla because those fields are baked into bugzilla guts and removing them would require not just hiding them on the edit-bug page but also from the query pages and various other locations.
I do think we should try to stop using these fields for anything important. --BDS _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
