Since I last posted on this issue, we now have "keywords" that solve
-many of the issues of description and status whiteboard keywords. We
-have seen a migration towards keywords, but there is still further to
-go.
-
-Description ( + Status Whiteboard ) Keywords
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-
-Some description keywords remain. I'd like to hear what reasons, other
-than time, there are for these staying as they are. I'm suspecting many
-are not really being used. Hopefully we can totally remove these
-eventually.
-
-Tracking Bugs
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-
-When I suggested keywords, I did so to get rid of tracking bugs too,
-though we've had less success on that front.
-
-There are many disadvantages to tracking bugs.
-
-- They can pollute bugs counts, and you must make sure you exclude
-them. I believe the meta keyword might be used for this purpose.
-- They have an assignee but there is nothing to fix, and that person can
-get whined at by Bugzilla.
-- It would be better to craft your own "dependency tree" rather than
-rely on a fixed hierachy in the bug system.
-- In creating a nice little hierachy, many bugs duplicate information
-that should be available in other ways, eg
-"http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12833" which is
-about beta 1 networking issues. These could fall behind the actual
-data. What tracking bugs are good for, ad hoc lists, is what keywords
-are better for.
-- An automatically generated dependency structure between one "tracking
-bug" and another would be better than a manual one, since it gives exact
-rather than manually set up classifications.
-
-Probably the only feature preventing tracking bugs being replaced is the
-dependency tree. The quintessential tracking bug seems to be bug #7229
-"chofmann's watch list", which probably has about a couple of hundred
-bugs at various levels, which allows a nice visualisation.
-
-Before keywords can replace tracking bugs better visualisation is going
-to be required. General summary reports and dependency forests of a bug
-list ("http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12992") could both
-help, but neither solves the problem totally. Perhaps keywords within
-keywords would help here. In any case, I'm still thinking about this
-one.
-
-Some tracking bugs could definitely be turned into keywords immediately
-though, and I'll point the finger at
-"http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7954" here since that's
-what came to mind first.