87529 - Remove `ui' keyword

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(bugzilla.mozilla.org :: Administration, task)

Description

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

ui: `For bugs which need some attention for UI specific work to close out.'

This keyword definition is almost mesmerizing in its quasi-tautology, but
describecomponents.cgi is not the place for postmodern quality assurance poems.
What is the keyword for? Is it useful? Will our superhero survive? Who knows?

I can think of two possible meanings for this keyword:
(1) Bugs which require front-end work. As such, the keyword could probably be
    applied to a very large proportion of bugs in Bugzilla, so it would be
    rather useless.
(2) Bugs which need UI design work. But we have the `UI Design' component for
    that, so the keyword would be rather useless.

Comment 1

[Blake Ross]

Reminds me of bug 63239.  You'd better hope no one finds this keyword useful, 
because if they do, it won't get removed.

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

I agree, let's get rid of the ui keyword.

Comment 3

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

->me

Comment 4

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

Who is using the ui keyword? Someone clearly is, because there are 833 bugs so
marked.

Comment 5

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

jglick: do you use the 'ui' keyword?

Comment 6

[jglick]

>jglick: do you use the 'ui' keyword?
I generally don't use it to track bugs.

Comment 7

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

jglick: Would you be happy with it being removed? Any idea who is actively using
the 'ui' keyword and might mind it being removed?

Comment 8

[jglick]

I don't mind either way. I've notice nbaca (qa) has used it in the past, cc'ing 
her.

Comment 9

[lchiang]

I did a query for all (open) bugs where the keyword was changed to "ui" between
June 1, 2002 and now.  19 results were found.

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&long_desc_type=substring&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&status_whiteboard=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&emailassigned_to1=1&emailtype1=exact&email1=&emailassigned_to2=1&emailreporter2=1&emailqa_contact2=1&emailtype2=exact&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&votes=&changedin=&chfield=keywords&chfieldfrom=2002%2F06%2F01&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=ui&cmdtype=doit&remaction=run&namedcmd=browser-general+open&order=Bug+Number&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0=

In glancing over some of them, some folks changing the keyword to "ui" included:
[e-mail]
[e-mail]

You can probably remove this keyword with some notifications to the mozilla
newsgroup(s) (please cc: me on the email so I can forward it around here to the
UI group and to the QA group).

Thanks

Comment 10

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

I'm fine with the removal of this keyword.  Thanks.

Comment 11

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

[e-mail]: Are you ok with the removal of the 'ui' keyword?

Comment 12

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

Unless someone comments further, I plan on removing this keyword during my next
run through Bugzilla Keywords bugs.

Comment 13

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

done

Comment 14

[timeless]

vrfy removed