What happens after June 24? Is the whiteboard field going to be removed?
On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 4:32 PM, Emma Humphries <e...@mozilla.com> wrote: > tl;dr -- nominate whiteboard tags you want converted to keywords. Do it by > 24 June 2016. > > We have a love-hate relationship with the whiteboard field in bugzilla. On > one hand, we can add team-specific meta data to a bug. On the other hand, > it's not a indexed field or a real tag system, making it hard to parse, > search, and update. > > But creating keywords is a hassle since you have to request them. > > The long term solution is to turn whiteboard into proper tag system, but > the Bugzilla Team's offering to help with some bulk conversion of > whiteboard tags your teams use into keywords. > > To participate: > > 1. Create a Bug in the bugzilla.mozilla.org::Administration component for each > whiteboard tag you want to convert. > > 2. The bug's description should have the old keyword, the new keyword you > want to replace it with, and the description of this new keyword which will > appear in the online help. > > 3. Make sure your keyword doesn't conflict with existing keywords, so be > prepared to rename it. If your keyword is semantically similar to an > existing keyword or other existing bugzilla field we'll talk you about a > mass change to your bugs. > > 4. Make the parent bug, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1279022, > depend on your new bug. > > 5. CC Emma Humphries on the bug > > We will turn your whiteboard tag into a keyword and remove your old tag > from the whiteboard tags, so make sure your dashboards and other tools that > consume Bugzilla's API are updated to account for this. > > Please submit your whiteboard fields to convert by Friday 24 June 2016. > > Cheers, > > Emma Humphries > _______________________________________________ > 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
