Re: Update on bugzilla stuff

[Daniel Berlin <dan at cgsoftware dot com>]

On Tue, 1 Jan 2002, Joseph S. Myers wrote:

> On Tue, 1 Jan 2002, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> 
> > It might also make sense to drop Product, unless we can make
> > meaningful use of it.  (Possibly things like libstdc++, web, etc,
> > could usefully be Products instead of Components.)
> 
> The only part that is meaningfully a separate product is web; although
> libstdc++ may produce its own releases as well as being part of GCC, as
> far as the bug-tracking system is concerned I think everything from the
> GCC source is one GCC product.  (And some categories are even less like
> products, e.g. optimization, bootstrap.  "target" ought to split up with
> separate categories for the main architectures (and maybe OSes) that are
> actively maintained and used, but that isn't a conversion issue.)
> 
> > > The search form still looks a mess in Lynx, with multiple fields (Product,
> > > Component, Version) having their values in a single vertical list with all
> > > the headings above that list.
> > 
> > This is probably hopeless - it's because Lynx doesn't do tables.
> > Links renders it better.
> 
> Reordering the HTML so that each heading comes just before the contents to
> which it refers ought to suffice.

It does, actually, it's because lynx can't handle the table right.

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