Suggestion for a new Bugzilla keyword: "meta-bug"

[Volker Reichelt]

In order to provide a mechanism for grouping PR's I'd like to add the
new keyword "meta-bug" to Bugzilla together with the short explanation:

  meta-bug
  Not a real PR, but the common denominator of a group of PR's.


A more detailed explanation of the concept could be added to the
"procedures and policies" section of management.html:

  <p><strong>Meta-bugs (reports with the keyword "meta-bug")</strong> are
  used to group PR's that have a common denominator.  Meta-bugs do not have
  own testcases, but provide links to regular PR's via Bugzilla's "depends
  on/blocks" mechanism instead (a link to a regular PR is added via
  "depends on <em>PR-number</em>" on the Bugzilla page of the meta-bug).
  Information concerning the majority of bugs that a meta-bug depends on
  should be added to the meta-bug instead of each single PR.</p>


With such a mechanism it's IMHO easier to find duplicates, related
stuff, and unstable spots in the compiler. It's easier to collect
information and duplicate work is hopefully reduced.
As candidates for meta-bugs issues like "attributes", "name lookup",
"typeof", "SFINAE", come to my mind (I admit that this list is a
little C/C++ biased).

Any {sugges,objec}tions?

Regards,
Volker