There is a ticket for a "proper" tag system, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1266609 which given time, I'd like to get implemented, but with limited resources, this is what I can do now.
On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 2:08 PM, Patrick McManus <pmcma...@mozilla.com> wrote: > as you note the whiteboard tags are permissionless. That's their killer > property. Keywords as you note are not, that's their critical weakness. > > instead of fixing that situation in the "long term" can we please fix that > as a precondition of converting things? Mozilla doesn't need more > centralized systems. If they can't be 100% automated to be permissionless > (e.g. perhaps because they don't scale) then the new arrangement of things > is definitely worse. > > I'll note that even for triage, our eventual system evolved rapidly and > putting an administrator in the middle to add and drop keywords and > indicies would have just slowed stuff down. Permissionless to me is a > requirement. > > > On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 2:43 PM, Kartikaya Gupta <kgu...@mozilla.com> > wrote: > >> 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 >> _______________________________________________ >> firefox-dev mailing list >> firefox-...@mozilla.org >> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/firefox-dev >> > > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
