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Re: Removing GNATS categories
"Martin v. Loewis" wrote:
> > But, you see, there are experts that can recategorize into finer
> > detail. I know that I have always wanted, and often used finer
> > resolution than just g++. EH/pt/mi/rtti/vtbl and so on... I find
> > such micro categories very useful. It'd be nice for gnats to support
> > a subcategory, then the main one could be g++, with the minor one be
> > even more specific.
>
> I agree. What we probably could do is to add the categories, and not
> expose them to the submitter. Not adding them into the gccbug script
> is easy. Not adding them in gnatsweb.pl is more difficult, unless we
> have two cgi scripts - one for database maintainers, and one for
> submitters. Again, this is a request for perl hackers - any
> volunteers?
I took a look at cvsweb.pl. Unlike gccbug, it doesn't contain a list of
categories; it seems to read the list from the GNATS server by sending it
the `lcat' command.
Two solutions come to mind:
* Filter out the "hidden" categories in gnatsweb.pl; or,
* Fix the GNATS server to filter the list of categories, perhaps based
on the name of the logged in user.
The first is probably a bad idea, since gnatsweb.pl lets you connect to
severlal bug databases. The second means hacking GNATS itself
(themselves?).
Which is worse? :)
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