Re: The Whiteboard Tag Amnesty

Yes, 'amnesty' is probably too strong a term, and 'cleanup' is probably
better.

-- Emma

On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 2:19 PM, Patrick McManus <[email protected]>
wrote:

> that's useful thanks. I think the word amnesty implied the death penalty
> for existing whiteboard tags.
>
> what it sounds like is you're just offering (for a limited time) to do
> conversions on an opt-in basis? That's great.
>
> -P
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 3:11 PM, Emma Humphries <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> > On Jun 8, 2016, at 1:43 PM, Kartikaya Gupta <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > What happens after June 24? Is the whiteboard field going to be removed?
>> >
>>
>> No, the whiteboard field remains, but any tags migrated will be deleted
>> from existing values.
>>
>> If a tag is used across teams, I'll work out a resolution such as both
>> teams using the new keyword, or specific keywords as long as they don't
>> semantically copy other existing fields.
>>
>>
>> >> 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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