89635 - netcenter keyword

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

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

Description

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Is the netcenter keyword still useful? Are there folks at netscape.com that
regularly query for bugs with this keyword? There are currently 12 open bugs
with this keyword
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bugidtype=include&order=bugs.bug_id&bug_id=,7174,29817,39325,44746,52806,55554,56938,58046,74240,75919,78114,79486

This bug is to propose that the netcenter keyword be removed or replaced with a
status whiteboard comment. There are currently only 12 open bugs with this
keyword and it looks like its use is pretty limited, mostly sidebar or
evangelism/layout bugs. In situtions where there aren't going to be scores or
hundreds of uses by many people it might not make sense to use a keyword.
Keywords were designed to encourage consistent usage by providing a meaningful
description of usage and to enforced consistent spelling for ease in querying.
When a flag is as limited as this one it could probably be just as effective in
the status whiteboard and uncluttering the Keyword list makes all of the other
keywords that much more usable.

johng, selmer, lchiang, stephend, rebron, you all are the ones currently using
this keyword. Are you willing to switch over to putting that word in the status
whiteboard, for the good of all bugzilla users ;) 

--Asa

Comment 1

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

Fine with me, although my opinion in this matter counts the least ;-)

Comment 2

[lchiang]

that's fine with the status whiteboard comment.  Stephen - can you go through
and mark those bugs with [netcenter] in status whiteboard?  Thanks!

Comment 3

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

Done, at first I messed up and forgot the square braces, but I fixed all of
them.  Should someone mark this fixed now?

Comment 4

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

netcenter keyword removed from Bugzilla keyword list. Fixed.  Thanks for your
help Stephen.

Comment 5

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

No problem.  I can verify for Lisa, since this was such a trivial thing to do
and verify.