The Whiteboard Tag Amnesty

tl;dr -- nominate whiteboard tags you want converted to keywords. Do it by
24 June 2016.

We have a love-hate relationship with the whiteboard field in bugzilla. On
one hand, we can add team-specific meta data to a bug. On the other hand,
it's not a indexed field or a real tag system, making it hard to parse,
search, and update.

But creating keywords is a hassle since you have to request them.

The long term solution is to turn whiteboard into proper tag system, but
the Bugzilla Team's offering to help with some bulk conversion of
whiteboard tags your teams use into keywords.

To participate:

1. Create a Bug in the bugzilla.mozilla.org::Administration component for each
whiteboard tag you want to convert.

2. The bug's description should have the old keyword, the new keyword you
want to replace it with, and the description of this new keyword which will
appear in the online help.

3. Make sure your keyword doesn't conflict with existing keywords, so be
prepared to rename it. If your keyword is semantically similar to an
existing keyword or other existing bugzilla field we'll talk you about a
mass change to your bugs.

4. Make the parent bug, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1279022,
depend on your new bug.

5. CC Emma Humphries on the bug

We will turn your whiteboard tag into a keyword and remove your old tag
from the whiteboard tags, so make sure your dashboards and other tools that
consume Bugzilla's API are updated to account for this.

Please submit your whiteboard fields to convert by Friday 24 June 2016.

Cheers,

Emma Humphries

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