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IDProjectCategoryView StatusDate SubmittedLast Update
0013391InfrastructureGeneralpublic2015-10-03 10:392023-12-11 16:48
Reporterale Assigned Toale  
PrioritynormalSeverityfeatureReproducibilityN/A
Status closedResolutionsuspended 
Summary0013391: reduce the number of categories in the bug tracker
Descriptioncurrently we have more than 40 different categories for reporting a bug:

3rd Party
Build System
Canvas
Color Management
Documentation
Download Manager
Fonts
General
Graphics / Image Frames
Import / Export
Integration
Internal
Language Tools
LiveCD
NLS
OS-Haiku
OS-MacOSX
OS-OS/2 & eCS
OS-PPCOSX
OS-Win32
PDF
Plug-ins
Printing
Properties Palette
Qt4 Port
Qt5 Port
Releases
Round Table
Scrapbook
Scripter
Shape Drawing
Story Editor / Text Frames
Styles
Tables
Templates
Translation
Typography
Undo/Redo
Usability
User Interface
Website

this is scary for people new to bug reporting and annoying for the other reporters.

most of the time the category has not influence either on the bug. i propose that we have a minimal set of categories and, if we want some triage, we do it through tags.

Additional Informationi went through the existing categories and i'd like to suggest to keep the following categories:

- General
- Development / Internal
- User interface
- Documentation
- Resources
- Document content
- Import / Export
- Translation

here is a proposal, how the existing categories could be moved into one of the few remaining categories:

- General
  - 3rd Party
  - Round Table (what is this?)
- Development / Internal
  - Build System
  - OS-Haiku
  - OS-MacOSX
  - OS-OS/2 & eCS
  - OS-PPCOSX
  - OS-Win32
  - Integration
  - Internal
  - Language Tools
  - LiveCD
  - Plug-ins
  - Qt4 Port
  - Qt5 Port
  - Releases
  - Scripter
  - Undo/Redo
- User interface
  - Properties Palette
  - Canvas
- Documentation
- Resources
  - Color Management
  - Fonts
  - NLS
  - Download Manager
  - Scrapbook
  - Styles
  - Templates
- Document content
  - Graphics / Image Frames
  - Shape Drawing
  - Story Editor / Text Frames
  - Tables
  - Typography
  - Usability
  - User Interface
- Import / Export
  - PDF
  - Printing
- Translation

Removed because it belongs to Infrastructure:
- Website
TagsNo tags attached.

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related to 0013357 closed MantisBT 1.3beta3 was just released 
related to 0012544 assignedKunda [REQUEST] Augmentations to MantisBT 

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Kunda

2015-10-03 13:22

updater   ~0036489

I agree that the categories need to be slimmed down. The real issue is MantisBT and how it searches and classifies things. The search functionality is pretty inferior. It's the reason we have many categories, metabugs, tags etc...
But none of them are really super effective. I can go further in to why.

The point is that we can probably eliminate 2 categories right from the start:
Website, Qt4 Port

Not sure how to do that and if it will bork the current most recent activity on the BT.

I hope that MantisBT 1.3 will do a better job.

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2015-10-03 10:39 ale New Issue
2015-10-03 13:22 Kunda Note Added: 0036489
2015-10-03 13:24 Kunda Relationship added related to 0013357
2015-10-03 13:24 Kunda Relationship added related to 0012544
2023-12-11 16:48 ale Assigned To => ale
2023-12-11 16:48 ale Status new => closed
2023-12-11 16:48 ale Resolution open => suspended