[Libreoffice-qa] Bugzilla Migration: Abbreviation to replace fdo#12345

[Robinson Tryon]

On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 2:05 AM, Norbert Thiebaud <nthiebaud at gmail.com> wrote:
> sure but the dev need to use the canonical abbreviation because we
> have bot that use them to detect association between commit and bugs
> that is not the case on Ask for instance

technically speaking, the bot could recognize lo# as well as lobz#,
but I am strongly of the opinion that we should have just one
abbreviation! :-)

>
>> "Joel, go take a look at regressions on FDO" => "Joel, go take a look
>> at regressions on LO"
>> "Joel, go take a look at regressions on FDO" => "Joel, go take a look
>> at regressions on LOBZ"
>
> How many place could one possibly be looking for 'regression' ... what
> confusing meaning lo could have in this context... beside you could
> use libreoffice bugzilla or 'salt mines' in that context it would not
> matter much

I think I'll start using 'salt mines' as a euphemism from now on...

>... it is human to human interractions... the issue is that
> dev have to put stuff in their commit message to talk to Bot
> so one cannot be as creative there :-)

true, the bots are kind of annoying in that regard :-)

--R