[Libreoffice-qa] BUGZILLA: prefilled whiteboard items like in the keywords field

Michael Stahl mstahl at redhat.com
Mon Jul 6 14:51:08 PDT 2015


On 06.07.2015 21:44, Bjoern Michaelsen wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 06, 2015 at 09:01:11PM +0200, Christian Lohmaier wrote:
>>> I think about having "bibisectRequest", "bibisected", "notBibisectable" and
>>> other useful terms in it.
>>
>> For  those, maybe we should  promote those to actual keywords?
>>
>> So is it possible: Yes
>> Should it be done: depends :-)
> 
> Right. At least from the theoretical standpoint once you have a welldefined set
> of stuff in whiteboard, that are well-known and widely used. Having them a
> keywords is the right thing.
> 
> From a practical point of view, we would need to keep things consistent:
> - thus removing all those in exsisting whiteboard and adding them as keywords
> - not spamming the world to a halt with that bulk change
> - update _all_ doce everywhere: in git repositories, wikis and whatnot
> - updating all scripts and queries using these everywhere
> - announcing the change far and wide
> - keeping an eye out for people doing it "the old way" out of habit for at
>   least half a year
> 
> Im not saying its not possible, just that it is much more work and hidden costs
> that it might initially appear.

haven't we already discussed exactly which whiteboards should be
keywords on this list like half a year ago?

/me still waiting for his "odf" keyword :)



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