Re: Steering committee request regarding gcc's bugzilla

[Daniel Berlin <dberlin at dberlin dot org>]

On Dec 12, 2003, at 1:29 PM, Joseph S. Myers wrote:

> On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Daniel Berlin wrote:
>
> > There's only one urlbase, regardless of product, so unless we use one
> > of gcc.gnu.org's other aliases, that's what the urls will be printed
> > as.
>
> How hard would it be for different URLs to select different products 
> and
> hide the components/versions/milestones for other products by default?
This is already done automatically.

> I.e., GCC and binutils have completely different version numbering
> scehemes and components that make sense, so it would save some bug
> reporter confusion if when reporting GCC bugs they only see possible
> version/component values that make sense for GCC.

This happens already in the select boxes.
When you select a product, it only shows version/components/target 
milestone that are available for that product.

"
[%# selectProduct reads the selection from f.product and updates
  # f.version, component and target_milestone accordingly.
"


>   (But for the benefits
> of a joint database to be there, it would need to be possible to move a
> bug from the gcc to the binutils product and at the same time change 
> GCC
> version/component/milestone into binutils ones.)