[gentoo-project] Re: improving documentation handling in bugzilla

[Mike Frysinger]

On Thursday, March 17, 2011 03:41:34 Jan Kundrát wrote:
> On 03/17/11 08:10, Joshua Saddler wrote:
> > On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 00:43:39 -0400 Mike Frysinger wrote:
> >> i cant see any value in having "Documentation" and "Doc Other" be
> >> separate products.  let's simply merge the two Component lists and
> >> be done with it.
> >
> > No. The GDP is sick of people reporting non-/doc/ bugs
> > to us. Everything filed against /proj/ comes to mind. "Doc Other" is a
> > better category, as it means we don't have to do as much work
> > reassigning stuff that should never have been assigned to us in the
> > first place. I'm okay with renaming it if "doc other" isn't specific
> > enough, but I want to keep the separate categories.
>
> I agree with maintaining the three categories. What about a
> "Project-specific documentation on the web" for the "Doc Other", though?

it isnt just product-specific documentation, and i'm trying to make things 
clearer/simpler, not more confusing

> > Translations don't always use the [lang] prefix, though, and it's one
> > more dropdown level they'd have to drill through if the separate
> > component was removed. We already can't rely on people using
> > subcategories and dropdowns as it is; adding more isn't a good idea.
>
> I guess it'd be hard to search just for bugs affecting /doc/en/ (which
> is what the majority of the non-translating GDP cares about) if there
> was just a prefix. Even if it was in some category, that'd just make it
> hard for translators to list bugs in their specific language.

if the component was trans/[lang], then everything you mention here would 
still be doable
-mike