Removing GNATS categories

[Branko]

"Martin v. Loewis" wrote:

> I think modifying gnatsd is not going to work, unless you want to get
> that into gnats 4 earliest. You'd have to extend the structure of
> gnatsd.access, and perhaps a number of other files (such as
> categories).

That's what I thought, yes.

> While in principle it is a good thing that gnatsweb allows to connect
> to different databases, customizing it via gnatsweb-site.pl is ok -
> like having a function filter_categories, which gets the categories
> list and can make a decision based on the database, the access mode,
> and perhaps the user. In the specific case, it would have a narrow
> list in sending mode, and a long list in editing mode.

Oops, I completely missed the site-specific callback. It just goes to show, you
have to analyse more thoroughly before trying to fix a problem ...

Yes, it's doable that way, and I'm willing to give it a go. I'll let you know
how it goes in a day or so.


For the long term, I think getting support for this into GNATS is the way to
go.


    Brane

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