[GNC-dev] BZ: Comments

[Geert Janssens]

Op woensdag 23 mei 2018 16:00:57 CEST schreef John Ralls:
> >>> I am a heavy user of the browse page. On gnomebz this had plenty of
> >>> 
> >>> statistics on a product. There are all gone. Is this because I'm not
> >>> yet known as a developer or was this a gnome customization ?
> >> 
> >> That's a good question; I don't have an answer.  I do think that the
> >> "browse" page on GnomeBZ links to a different page than in our BZ
> >> instance.
> > 
> > It does indeed. Looks like another gnome customization.
> > 
> >>> Each bug report now has a block for effort estimates and
> >>> 
> >>> accounting. Do we want to keep this ? And can it be (globally)
> >>> disabled via configuration ?
> >> 
> >> I believe it can be globally disabled, which I think I just did.  Can
> >> you confirm?
> > 
> > I can confirm it's gone now. Thanks!
> > 
> >>> Looking at attachments and attachment statuses again. Without a status
> >>> flag it is effectively more difficult to track a patch' status.
> >>> 
> >>> I just took the first example:
> >>> https://bugzilla.gnucash.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=570011
> >>> 
> >>> I had to read through the whole bug to understand improvemements were
> >>> requested and not yet provided.
> >>> So I'm in two minds about this. I do understand it would require
> >>> bugzilla customization however without it bugzilla gets yet a bit more
> >>> cumbersome to manage patches.
> >> 
> >> There are two issues here.
> >> 
> >> 1) We would need to implement the extension.  It's likely we could
> >> possibly get the code from Gnome to do so, but then we would need to
> >> port it to BZ 5.  I don't know how much code it is, or how hard it would
> >> be to port and/or maintain.
> > 
> > There is the Splinter bugzilla extension (https://github.com/bugzilla/
> > extensions-Splinter/commits/4.0) which seems to implement this. I don't
> > have high hopes though as this was written for bugzilla 4.0 and the code
> > hasn't been touched since 2016 (at least not on github).
> 
> All of the Gnome customizations should be in
> https://git.gnome.org/browse/bugzilla-gnome-org-customizations/
> <https://git.gnome.org/browse/bugzilla-gnome-org-customizations/>.
> Certainly the gnome_attachment_status stuff is. They’re obviously for BZ4.4
> and so might need some work to get them going for 5.0.
> 
True. I found references to their customized browse page in there as well.

> I think that it’s premature to break up GnuCash. That will only confuse
> users. +1 for separating Docs, Website, and Packaging, i.e.
> gnucash-on-(windows|osx).

Agreed and I like Packaging as name.

Geert