1520927 - change "Mac OS X" to "macOS" in BMO

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(bugzilla.mozilla.org :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

The name of the Apple Macintosh operating system changed from OS X to macOS. We should update Bugzilla. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS#macOS for details of this change if interested.

Comment 1

[Emma Humphries ☕️🎸🧞‍♀️✨ (she/they) [:emceeaich] (Pacific Time) use needinfo]

Added macOS as an option, disabled Mac OS X.

Questions:

1. Do we change the platform of bugs filed since June 2016 (when Sierra was announced and macOS became the name)
2. Do we move all Mac OS X bugs to macOS

Comment 2

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

When I search for mac bugs, I usually want to see all bugs on the Macintosh operating system irrespective of when they were filed.

Comment 3

[Markus Stange [:mstange]]

I agree with Asa. Ideally we could just rename the option.

Comment 4

[Markus Stange [:mstange]]

If that's not possible, then yes, all existing Mac OS X bugs should be moved to macOS.

Comment 5

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

That is, this isn't a new version of the macintosh operating system, it's a rename, so I think we should rename old bugs and only have one listing "macOS" in the platform select for searching for all bugs on the mac operating system.

Comment 6

[Emma Humphries ☕️🎸🧞‍♀️✨ (she/they) [:emceeaich] (Pacific Time) use needinfo]

Okay, I'm going to disable the new option, re-enable the old, rename Mac OS X as macOS, and update any bugs that have been filed in the past few minutes.

Thank you.

Comment 7

[Emma Humphries ☕️🎸🧞‍♀️✨ (she/they) [:emceeaich] (Pacific Time) use needinfo]

Note that when we change this field, cached values stick around in the User and Admin UI and can lead to values not showing up. See bug 1521180.