Re: Proposed changes to Bugzilla components

[Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>]

On 08/24/2015 01:34 PM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Aug 2015, Florian Weimer wrote:
> 
>> On 08/24/2015 11:41 AM, Joseph Myers wrote:
>>
>> These two a very difficult to tell apart:
>>
>>> * network is "Any network-related functionality e.g. getaddrinfo etc.".  
>>> Suggest changing "network-related" to "network-related or socket-related" 
>>> (sockets may not strictly be networking, but this seems the best place for 
>>> issues about generic socket functions).
>>
>>> * nss "Name Service Switch.".
>>
>> Mainly because network explicitly mentions getaddrinfo.  It's also not
>> clear where to put resolv issues (but it could get its own component).
> 
> I'm thinking of nss as being non-network nss issues, while network 
> includes resolv issues.  18356 (currently network) would be nss, 18724 
> (currently network) would be libc (putpwent isn't NSS), libc issues that 
> would be nss include at least 12459, 15385, 17250.

I'm not sure if the distinction is always so clear-cut, but I don't have
strong feelings about it.

>> The miscellaneous component is also somewhat difficult to find in my
>> experience.
> 
> You mean libc?

Indeed.

> I think the problem with it is there are too many issues 
> there (which to some extent can only be addressed by people working 
> through them and fixing them - or, where issues request new features, 
> seeking consensus on libc-alpha about whether those features are desirable 
> at all; that also applies to issues in various other components).

I think it should be called “misc” or “general”.  Or there should be an
“unclassifed” component selected by default.

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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security