163359 - "OS" should have win32, WinNTx ... as groups

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 9468

(Bugzilla :: User Interface, defect)

Description

[Damir Perisa]

in most cases, a bug related to win98 is also related to winME or win95 - same
with winNT-based windows-OSs --- what about having OS-groups in the "OS"-parameter?

they should be:

- "win32"     (win95, win98, winMe and all related)
- "winNTx"    (winNT4, win2K and all related)
- "MacSys"    (Mac Systems 7.x - 9.x)

maybe someone other has more group-suggestions

Comment 1

[timeless]

1. this belongs to bugzilla, mozilla.org shouldn't make such a change for itself.
2. i'm opposed.
2' there's an rfe somewhere asking for multiselect which would actually be
useful, but ranges are really useless.
3. for the current system, if a bug occurs in two os's, select the older one
(for reference, win9x is older than winnt). this works well enough for most of
us.  The next improvement should be of the form 2'.
4. Asa is generally opposed to generics because people are lazy and tend to
select them first instead of their specific subentities.  If we introduce Win32
into the current system then many people will just always select it, instead of
WinXP or whatever, resulting in a serious dilution of data.
5. The ranges are really useless, mozilla doesn't actually run on macos7 so if
you did mark a bug as affecting that range, you'd be lying.  So you could
propose that we have all possible ranges. Well that's silly, see 2' for the
correct solution.

Comment 2

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 9468 ***

Comment 3

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

This could have been a dupe of bug 12309 as well, but I had to pick one.

Comment 4

[timeless]

vrfy dupe of one of those