GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 742490
Rethink "Platform"/"Hardware" field in GNOME Bugzilla
Last modified: 2018-06-16 13:27:17 UTC
I cannot even query for "Platform" or "Hardware" on the Reports page. I cannot search for it either on https://bugzilla.gnome.org/query.cgi?format=advanced - what the? Abusing https://bugzilla-test.gnome.org/query.cgi?format=advanced for that, no idea if the results can be trusted Platform Number of tickets DEC 0 HP 0 Macintosh 0 PC 13 SGI 0 Sun 0 Other >10000 All The rest One potential idea: KDE uses the "Platform" field for Linux distributions.
Hardware/Platform is entirely useless.
Now that the ‘All’ option for hardware is gone, everything is being filed as ‘Other’ which seems a bit perverse. If we’re going to effectively eliminate the hardware field, can we please use ‘All’ instead of ‘Other’ as the only value? If not, can we please have the other options added back? Currently, git-bz is broken unless the default config is changed to file bugs against ‘Other’ rather than ‘All’: http://cgit.collabora.com/git/user/pwith/git-bz.git/commit/?h=bugzilla-4.4&id=682561073457fd6b08cf23214eb849c16f2713f2 See also: bug #744319.
Did you try not passing the platform? It should be optional AFAIK.
(In reply to Olav Vitters from comment #3) > Did you try not passing the platform? It should be optional AFAIK. I just tried it, and not passing the platform field works. Passing an empty value fails. So I guess one solution would be to tweak git-bz to not pass an empty platform value, and then make the default empty in its config for bugzilla.gnome.org. Still, there’s the question of whether the platform field would be useful to have back. I have no opinion on that.
Since GNOME used Bugzilla 2.20 we've hidden the Platform column from view as it is so useless. With "have back", it would mean going to 2.16 days. That's like 10 years ago.
After https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/DevelopmentInfrastructure , GNOME is moving its task tracking from Bugzilla to GitLab at https://gitlab.gnome.org/ as previously announced in https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2018-May/msg00026.html . See https://wiki.gnome.org/GitLab for more information. Hence closing this ticket as WONTFIX: There are no plans to work on Bugzilla.