As many people have noticed, the recent crack of widget gave us an opportunity to upgrade bugzilla. There are a couple of important semantic changes. * There are two new fields, "GNOME Version" and "GNOME Milestone". GNOME Version is to keep track of what GNOME Version a bug was reported in, and is mainly so we can do cross-bugzilla queries for modules that don't follow GNOME versioning. It replaces the GNOMEVER* keywords. Bugs from bug-buddy will have this filled in automagically. Enhancements are excluded from this versioning scheme, because they are unlikely to change between versions unless explicitly acted upon, so there is a "Unversioned Enhancement" value for this. GNOME Milestone is only meant to be set by the bugsquad for bugs we think may be release showstoppers. It replaces the TARGET* keywords. * You can set statuses on patches. Attachments now have attachment statuses - if you haven't looked at the attachment editing interface, it's worth looking at because it's well cool. Anyway, all attachments can have the statuses "needs-work" or "maintainer-ok" set. Maintainers should set one of these when they review a patch, lest the bugsquad nag you about not reviewing patches. In the long-term, the PATCH keyword will go away since we'll have all the information in attachment statuses in a richer form. [[ We are working on making a page that makes it easier to query for unreviewed patches using this new method - at current, the query is for patch attachments without maintainer-ok or needs-work or obsolete set. ]] [[ There is also an "obsolete" checkbox. This is basically because if someone submits an updated patch, they can choose certain patches that it replaces and they become obsolete. Or if a patch is against too old a version of the software, for example, you could tick obsolete. ]] OK, so that's it. If there are issues with the new bugzilla, please check the "bugzilla.gnome.org" product and file them there if they're not already reported. Thanks, -- Andrew Sobala <aes gnome org>
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