Re: Proposed: evolution: bugzilla issue

[JP Rosevear <jpr novell com>]

On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 18:53 +0200, Christian Rose wrote:
> ons 2004-07-21 klockan 05.13 skrev Elijah Newren:
> > Pardon my ignorance, but I had a hard time finding the requirements for
> > inclusion in Gnome.  I found http://developer.gnome.org/gep/gep-10.html
> > via a Google search (I couldn't find any direct links to it from various
> > gnome.org sites that I could think of), but I don't know if this
> > document has since been followed by later revisions.
> > 
> > However, if that document still stands then usage of bugzilla.gnome.org
> > is not an actual requirement.  Yes it is encouraged, but considering
> > that one of the bugmasters, namely Andrew of the Pants, has already
> > stated that he's cool with the current situation, I see no reason for this
> > issue to block inclusion of Evolution.
> 
> It's not only an issue for the bugmasters -- Evolution using a different
> Bugzilla than everything else in the GNOME D&DP release affects many
> other contributors aswell.
> 
> As an example, translators want to keep track of all bugs in the release
> needing string changes. For the rest of the GNOME D&DP this is simple:
> Search for bugs matching the fields "Is part of GNOME D&DP", GNOME
> Version "2.7/2.8", and keyword "string" in GNOME Bugzilla. Do the same
> in bugzilla.ximian.com? Sorry, out of luck, since there are no such
> fields and keywords with any similar meaning to use there.

If the translators need this to be effective, we can certainly add these
milestones and keywords.

-JP
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JP Rosevear <jpr novell com>
Novell, Inc.