Re: The Whiteboard Tag Amnesty

as you note the whiteboard tags are permissionless. That's their killer
property. Keywords as you note are not, that's their critical weakness.

instead of fixing that situation in the "long term" can we please fix that
as a precondition of converting things? Mozilla doesn't need more
centralized systems. If they can't be 100% automated to be permissionless
(e.g. perhaps because they don't scale) then the new arrangement of things
is definitely worse.

I'll note that even for triage, our eventual system evolved rapidly and
putting an administrator in the middle to add and drop keywords and
indicies would have just slowed stuff down. Permissionless to me is a
requirement.


On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 2:43 PM, Kartikaya Gupta <[email protected]> wrote:

> What happens after June 24? Is the whiteboard field going to be removed?
>
> On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 4:32 PM, Emma Humphries <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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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