Bugzilla triaging

[Jan Beulich]

On 26.12.2024 11:16, Sam James wrote:
> I've been doing some triage of older Binutils bugs on bugzilla and
> wondered about the following.
> 
> GCC has a bunch of Bugzilla keywords to tag a bug as being of a certain
> class, e.g.
> * wrong-code
> * accepts-invalid
> * rejects-valid
> * testsuite-fail
> * needs-reduction
> * needs-source
> 
> The full list is described at https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/describekeywords.cgi.
> 
> How do people feel about us adding those (maybe different names? if so,
> what?) and some others, maybe binutils-specific ones (suggest them)?
> 
> The idea being making it a bit easier to find bugs of a certain type and
> also quickly find serious (or not-so-serious) bugs.

My take: Anything that makes it easier to filter for certain groups of
issues is welcome. I.e. as long as such tagging doesn't go overboard, I'd
welcome it. And the tag names enumerated above look all reasonable to me
for use in binutils as well.

Jan