28585 - Change "Platform" to "CPU"

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Bugzilla :: User Interface, enhancement, P4)

Description

[Rick Niles]

Change "Platform" to "CPU" (or CPU type or family)
or at least change:

"PC" to "i386", "x86", or "IA-32"
"DEC" (which doesn't exist anymore) to "Alpha"

I'd like to see the others changed as well, it just makes way more sense

DEC is now Compaq which also makes PCs.
HP makes PC as well as UNIX boxen.
SGI is switching to Linux in the future and Compaq may too.
There no entry for AIX/PPC.
Saying Linux/DEC, Linux/Macintosh, or Linux/Sun always seems really wrong

For completeness
Sun -> "Sparc", SGI -> "Mips", Macintosh -> "PPC"
and then add an entry for IA-64 while your at it.

I understand that this is something core to the database organization, but
I'm not asking to re-do the whole database, just rename the existing names.

Comment 1

[Terry Weissman]

[e-mail] is the new owner of Bugzilla and Bonsai.  (For details,
see my posting in netscape.public.mozilla.webtools,
news://news.mozilla.org/38F5D90D.F40E8C1A%40geocast.com .)

Comment 2

[Chris Yeh]

something to consider for a schema redesign

Comment 3

[Stephan Niemz]

Adding default QA contact to all open Webtools/Bugzilla bugs lacking one.
Sorry for the spam.

Comment 4

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Taking all of cyeh's Bugzilla bugs.

Comment 5

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

-> Bugzilla

Comment 6

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

We are currently trying to wrap up Bugzilla 2.16.  We are now close enough to
release time that anything that wasn't already ranked at P1 isn't going to make
the cut.  Thus this is being retargetted at 2.18.  If you strongly disagree with
this retargetting, please comment, however, be aware that we only have about 2
weeks left to review and test anything at this point, and we intend to devote
this time to the remaining bugs that were designated as release blockers.

Comment 7

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

The User Interface component now belongs to Gerv.  Reassigning all UNCONFIRMED
and NEW (but not ASSIGNED) bugs currently owned by Myk (the previous component
owner) to Gerv.

Comment 8

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Reassigning back to Myk.  That stuff about Gerv taking over the User Interface
component turned out to be short-lived.  Please pardon our confusion, and I'm
very sorry about the spam.

Comment 9

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

It doesn't look like anyone is working on this bug, and we want to wrap up 2.18
in a reasonable timeframe; pushing this off to 2.20.

Comment 10

[Paul Denize]

I disagree with changing Platform to CPU.  We have Platforms that run System 
and those platforms contain 6 CPUs (all of different makes).  Platform Makes a 
great deal of sence to us - it's more generic.

Comment 11

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Bugzilla 2.20 feature set is now frozen as of 15 Sept 2004.  Anything flagged
enhancement that hasn't already landed is being pushed out.  If this bug is
otherwise ready to land, we'll handle it on a case-by-case basis, please set the
blocking2.20 flag to '?' if you think it qualifies.

Comment 12

[hacksaw]

(In reply to comment #10)
> I disagree with changing Platform to CPU.  We have Platforms that run System 
> and those platforms contain 6 CPUs (all of different makes).  Platform Makes a 
> great deal of sence to us - it's more generic.

I was just about to say this.

We have a number of distinct x86 platforms with wildly different hardware, often
custom. We track some hardware bugs along with the software ones. Heck we track
bugs in documents about processes. (Think about that, folks)

Leave platform alone, and maybe make sure that "None" is an option by default.

And a big thanks to whomever made it easy to edit.

Comment 13

[Frédéric Buclin]

The trunk is now frozen to prepare Bugzilla 2.22. Only bug fixes are accepted, no enhancement bugs. As this bug has a pretty low activity (especially from the assignee), it's retargetted to ---. If you want to work on it and you think you can have it fixed for 2.24, please retarget it accordingly (to 2.24).

Comment 14

[Frédéric Buclin]

You can now add a separate CPU field if you want to, thanks to custom fields.