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On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> wrote:

Senthil Kumaran wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 07:06:29PM +0530, Anand Balachandran Pillai wrote:
>> I am surprised to see that the bug-tracker
>> doesn't have an OS classifier or ability to add
>> tags ? Since a number of issues reported seem to
>
> There is one. In the Components you can do a multiple select and it
> has Macintosh , Windows as options.

Thanks for pointing that out. I missed it.

A problem seems to be that for most bugs, the filer seems to select
just one component and leave the rest of it to bug description. When
I searched with "Windows" component, the most recent bugs I saw
was upto 1 week ago, where as a bug like http://bugs.python.org/issue8384
which is a distutils issue reported on Windows is not present, because
the reporter chose to file it under "distutils" component.

I think that setup dates from the Sourceforge days when we didn't have
keywords or the ability to add our own fields. Would it make sense to
put a request on the metatracker to convert these to keywords now that
they're available? Or even a separate OS field with "Windows, Mac OS X,
Linux, \*BSD, Other" as the options?

While there is some Windows and Mac specific code, treating them as
separate components seems fairly unintuitive.

+1\. I don't understand why Windows and Mac should come under
"Components". It is not very obvious to the reporters also.

Separate question: Who is in charge of bug triaging in pydev ? This is
something which I would like to help out with, if help is required :-)

Cheers,
Nick.

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