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> > I've got loads of ideas about how we could build a better bug database
>
> Go ahead, knock yourself out. Come back when you're done.
Not sure what you mean. I do intend to start coding a new bug
database system today, and I'll announce it on the list when it's
ready. If nobody likes it, I wasted my time.
> > - for example, we have categories at the moment in Bugzilla. Why? We
> > already have a MAINTAINERS file, so say somebody looks up the relevant
> > maintainer in that list, finds them, then goes to enter a bug in
> > Bugzilla. Now they have to assign it to a category, and different
> > people may well assign the same bug to different categories -
> > immediately making duplicate detection more difficult.
>
> Have you actually looked at the maintainers file?
Yes.
> It's a twisted mess of outdated information,
Then it should be updated, that is nothing to do with Bugzilla.
> in no well formated order.
Looks easy enough to parse with regular expressions to me.
> The category list in Bugzilla was an attempt to bring some sanity to
> the structure,
By adding an extra layer of abstraction. I don't agree that that
helps.
> though I won't claim it's perfect. We really need a 3-level tree,
> but that's a fair amount of work to code.
I disagree, (that we need a 3-level tree).
John.
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