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["Niels Reedijk" <niels.reedijk@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi gang,

I hope that after some initial roughness (in terms of speed), you are
liking (or at least not disliking) the Trac source code and changelog
browser. If you haven't tried, try http://dev.haiku-os.org/browser and
http://dev.haiku-os.org/log to check it out.

Ticket #1455 (http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/1455) is a feature
request to create some ticket enhancements. I would like to discuss my
ideas on these.

First of all, the 'platform' field. It is not a default field in Trac,
we added it for a reason which I guess is a hope for multi-platform
support. Currently the division of tickets among them is:
All: 368
PowerPC: 2 (requests for implementation of these platforms)
x64: 2
x86: 39
None: 20

The question currently is whether this is a useful field right now or
not. The bug reporter suggests adding the virtual platforms to this
list (at least, this is how I interpret the request). The other option
is just to remove this custom field. What do you think?

The other suggestion is to add a SVN revision field. As long as we're
using the bug tracker to track bugs in the trunk, we might as well add
it as it is a relevant piece of information. The question is, should
this field reflect the latest tested revision, or the revision in
which the bug was first encountered? I prefer the second option,
because it gives both developers and testers an easy overview of bugs
that need to be tested again for eventual fixes. In the ticket
details, the history of this field is saved, so it can be easily
tracked at which revision a bug was reported.

Kind regards,

Niels