Bug 198388

Summary:	schema: Add 'lib' component to 'Base System' product
Product:	Services	Reporter:	Mark Linimon <linimon>
Component:	Bug Tracker	Assignee:	Bugmeister <bugmeister>
Status:	Open ---
Severity:	Affects Some People	CC:	bugmeister, gonzo, grahamperrin
Priority:	---	Keywords:	needs-qa
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any
Bug Depends on:	267349
Bug Blocks:	191430

Description Mark Linimon freebsd_committer

2015-03-07 14:30:54 UTC

Our src users are confused about how to classify certain bugs.  Some of the things affecting libraries get filed as 'kern' and some as 'bin'.  I suggest creating a new component 'lib' to hold them.

Comment 1 Oleksandr Tymoshenko freebsd_committer

2018-02-23 20:28:03 UTC

Hi Mark,

Is this request still relevant?

Comment 2 Mark Linimon freebsd_committer

2018-02-25 06:38:48 UTC

(In reply to Oleksandr Tymoshenko from comment #1)

Yes, I'd still like to see it.

It would certainly serve us better than our 'misc' component :-)

Currently there are:

3387 in kern
1635 in bin
 388 in misc

which still suggests to me that we are not granular enough.

If we really wanted to break up the 'kern' conglomerate, the biggest ones we might want to break out are:

 - drivers
 - networking
 - filesystems

I hope you will at least agree that 3387 is not a "browseable" number :-)

Comment 3 Kubilay Kocak freebsd_committer

2018-02-25 08:02:22 UTC

I've had a list of potential new (non-repo path oriented) specific components to add to bugzilla for quite a while. 

The reason I haven't 'just added them' is because there is a communication (pre change announcement) that needs to be done prior to the change (with rationale if necessary), and that they all need to make sense both independently (in terms of offering the most obvious choice for how reporters classify issues), but also together, in terms of minimal (ideally zero) overlap.

Further, if any existing categories are replaced by the new set, then any auto-assignment (or other automatic) workflow things need to be identified and updated. 

Ultimately this is taxonomical problem that needs relatively careful consideration before its deployed, lest there be additional work required later on to move/reclassify bugs, which in Bugzilla is not painless

Comment 4 Kubilay Kocak freebsd_committer

2018-02-25 08:05:00 UTC

On the previous note, and for this specific example, while 'lib ' *may* be obvious to some seasoned developers, I think its reasonable to say that it would not be obvious to regular users. It's not obvious to me either, and I would have trouble ascertaining whether to file a bug in 'lib' or not.

Comment 5 Mark Linimon freebsd_committer

2023-12-25 16:58:34 UTC

^Triage: re-assign to bugmeister.