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Benjamin Smedberg  
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 More options Jun 12 2009, 6:13 pm
Newsgroups: mozilla.dev.planning
From: Benjamin Smedberg <benja...@smedbergs.us>
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:13:42 -0700
Local: Fri, Jun 12 2009 6:13 pm
Subject: Re: bugzilla.mozilla.org improvements
On 6/12/09 2:49 PM, Peter Weilbacher wrote:

> How then would you discover bugs that are OS dependent? I'm dealing
> with them every day, and it would awfully complicate my work if that
> field was not there.

> As a compromise one could remove the OS and Hardware fields from the
> guided form. But then I am not sure how I could reliably search for
> all OS/2 bugs that were filed over the last 5 days...

I think that specific search requirements can be better met with keywords,
since most bugs are not platform-specific. I think the principle should be
"don't have metadata fields where a keyword will work".

--BDS


 
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