On 1/18/11 2:45 PM, Torsten Veller wrote:
> What sort of confusion does SECURITY add?

I started thinking about it when https://bugs.gentoo.org/351922 was
filed (this is only an example).

The SECURITY keyword is not applied consistently (~80 bugs total), but
the description says "Add this on all security related issues."

> Do other keywords[1] like "Bug" add confusion too?

Yes, the same way.

> Is it worthwhile to remove the SECURITY keyword from 79 bugs...
> 
> ...if you consider that (if everyone gets keyword-changes bugzilla mails,
> it's an "Email Preference"[2] configurable in bugzilla)
> 79 mails are sent to 11 + 63 + other CC'ed recipients?

I wonder how many e-mails would be sent if we used the "Change several
bugs at once" Bugzilla feature. My guess is just one e-mail.

> ...if the keyword modification mails weren't sent
> but one of our infra members had to spend time on this?

Oh, I guess infra would reject spending time on this (low benefit to
effort ratio indeed).

Maybe we can just update description of obsolete KEYWORDS with something
like "*** DEPRECATED *** don't use for new bugs". That should be easy
and address most of my original point.