Re: "Exotic" GNATS 4 fields

[Rick Macdonald]

On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Yngve Svendsen wrote:

> At 12:06 03.10.2001 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> >On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 10:01:02PM +0200, Yngve Svendsen wrote:
> >
> > > Rename Cases to Related-PRs.
> >
> >Could I add a plea for another fireld called Testsuite-Cases: or
> >something (that's not a good name)?
> 
> I would say that with the current customization features of GNATS 4, adding 
> a field like that is so easy that including it in the default config 
> wouldn't be necessary. You can find out more about this if you have a look 
> at the current snapshot of the version 4 manual at 
> http://sources.redhat.com/gnats/4_0_manual/, specifically the section at 
> http://sources.redhat.com/gnats/4_0_manual/gnats_4.html#SEC38
> 
> Anyone else care to comment?

My take on this is that no existing gnats users are going to use the gnats
4 default fields, so I have no need to worry about getting _my_ favorite
fields into the default.

I can see having some default configs to choose from:
   - one that matches gnats 3 exactly
   - one that matches gnats 3 with-release-base exactly
   - some new v4 config that is the one we're talking about now

Plus, perhaps a library of snippits of neat field definitions that can be
copy/pasted into the default as desired.

Any new gnats installs are going to delete some fields from the default
and add some neat fields from the library and add some of their own wierd
fields. It's likely a bit easier to delete fields from the default than to
paste in definitions from the library set, so one might want to make the
default config the union of the suggestions, not the intersection, ...

You can go on...

How about a Tk configuration tool that presents a list of all definintions
in the "library" with descriptions. You just go up and down the list and
click check boxes on and off for what you want (much like the Linux kernel
"make xconfig"). In this case, the "default" config is the set of
definitions that have checkboxes pre-set in the config tool.

...RickM...