Re: Bugzilla bug tracking database for 2.5 now available.

Martin J. Bligh
2002-11-15T22:14:27Z

> If we have to use a 2-level component list, then I'd prefer we
> do the following:
>
> Category = 2.5-linus, 2.5-ac, 2.5-mm, etc.
> Component = something like
> MM-Page allocator
> MM-Slab allocator
> MM-NUMA
> MM-MTTR
> MM-Others
> FileSys-devfs
> FileSys-ext2
> FileSys-ext3
> and so on...

No. That ends up with 10 billion items all in one drop down list,
which is a pain in the butt to use.

> The above approach does not require any coding changes in Bugzilla
> and is therefore preferrable.

The current fix doesn't require coding changes either, and was trivial
to implement. A long term solution should be done properly, by the
addition of a tree field.

M.