Bugzilla wishes (Was: Volunteer for bug summaries?)

[Daniel Berlin]

On 5/29/07, Joe Buck <Joe.Buck@synopsys.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 07:29:33AM -0400, Daniel Berlin wrote:
> > On 5/28/07, Rask Ingemann Lambertsen <rask@sygehus.dk> wrote:
> > >On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 02:06:21PM -0400, Daniel Berlin wrote:
> > >
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> >
> > You can customize what fields are shown on the search results, if you like.
> > It used to be the target field, but it was requested to change it to
> > the the host field.
>
> The problem is that people don't fill in these fields on a
> consistent basis, or, for a native compiler, they pick one of the
> three to fill in and leave the others blank, but they make different
> choices.
>
> I suppose that the form could ask whether it's a native, cross, or
> Canadian cross, and then expose the extra fields, but that might be too
> painful and it doesn't fix the existing data.
>

We have these fields not because we necessarily decided they were
useful, but because they were in gnats.

I have no aversion to removing/replacing/whatevering any/all of them
with something better.

I'm also happy to write converters for our current data into whatever
we decide is more useful.