[dmd-internals] Bugzilla keyword suggestions

[Daniel Murphy]

I'm not sure what the disadvantage of having a bunch of new keywords
is, worst case they never get used.

Best case they make related bugs much easier to search for.  People
are much better at assigning keywords than they are at giving bugs
meaningful and searchable descriptions.  A lot of the time to find
duplicates I have to rely on my memory and searching for synonyms.

As for pull requests, it seems like they could be better represented
by a status change. (I don't know how customizable bugzilla is here)
Something like NEW -> CONFIRMED -> ASSIGNED -> PATCHED -> (MERGED) -> FIXED
This would better document the actual life cycles of the bugs.

Something to consider.  The current setup is workable but it could be
a little better.

On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Walter Bright <walter at digitalmars.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 1/31/2012 11:51 AM, Don Clugston wrote:
>>
>>
>> Fair enough. Actually, with regard to keywords, the biggest potential
>> improvement involves patches. There's over 1000 of them, and nearly
>> 200 are open, so it's the second biggest category.
>> At the moment, many bugs are listed as 'patch' even though the patch
>> is known to be incomplete or incorrect. Which is unhelpful and looks
>> bad.
>> We should either remove the patch keyword from those bugs, or create a
>> new keyword like 'partial-patch' or 'rejected-patch' for that
>> situation, depending on whether we think it's worth tracking them.
>>
>
> I suggest removing the patch keyword for those patches which are known to
> not be correct fixes. Such patches really only serve as additional
> information that may be helpful for anyone trying to fix it correctly.
>
> For the good patches, I'd like to see them redone as pull requests.
>
> For issues with pull requests fixing them, perhaps adding a 'pull' keyword
> will be appropriate.
>
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