[GNC-dev] Bugzilla Keywords -- keep or drop (and which ones)?

[John Ralls]

> On May 14, 2018, at 6:47 AM, Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I hit another snag in working on the BZ migration --  we need to
> "predefine" any keywords we wish to use.  I can try to determine which
> ones we DO use (so far I've seen "documentation"), but I figured I would
> put this out there first to decide how we want to handle them.
> 
> First, keywords need to be predefined in the BZ instance.  So unlike
> product categories, which get built based on the bugs being imported, I
> have to know a priori all the keywords that our bugs will use.
> 
> Second, to create a keyword I need the keyword itself and a description.
> 
> The good news is that you can get a list of keywords (and their
> descriptions) from gnome bugzilla without be logged in: 
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/describekeywords.cgi
> 
> The bad news is that I think I need to install them (manually) every time
> I blow away the database.  I can probably script this, somewhat.
> 
> So my question to the devs:  which keywords do we want to keep?  Should I
> just copy them all (for now) and prune after I import?  Should I figure
> out which ones we need?  Should I ignore keywords completely?
> 
> How do you all feel?

The existing keywords don’t seem terribly useful to me and they’re in any case not used consistently enough: only 364 out of 8590 GnuCash bugs have a keyword on them. I don’t think that there’s any need to import them unless BZ requires it.

If you do have to create them, do so and then back up the keyworddefs table using MySQL; you can then easily restore the table when you recreate the db.

Regards,
John Ralls