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Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 14:18:24 -0800
From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
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Subject: Re: Bugzilla bug tracking database for 2.5 now available.
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> If we have to use a 2-level component list, then I'd prefer we
> do the following:
> 
> Category = 2.5-linus, 2.5-ac, 2.5-mm, etc.
> Component = something like
>       MM-Page allocator
>       MM-Slab allocator
>       MM-NUMA
>       MM-MTTR
>       MM-Others
>       FileSys-devfs
>       FileSys-ext2
>       FileSys-ext3
>       and so on...

No. That ends up with 10 billion items all in one drop down list,
which is a pain in the butt to use.

> The above approach does not require any coding changes in Bugzilla
> and is therefore preferrable.

The current fix doesn't require coding changes either, and was trivial
to implement. A long term solution should be done properly, by the
addition of a tree field.

M.

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