RE: How to change SEVERITY and PRIORITY entries?

[Thornley, David]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yngve Svendsen [mailto:yngve.svendsen@clustra.com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 8:40 AM
> To: klaus.hofmann@infineon.com; bug-gnats@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: How to change SEVERITY and PRIORITY entries?
> 
> 
> At 17:08 26.10.2001 +0200, klaus.hofmann@infineon.com wrote:
> >Using gnats 3.113.1 I was wondering what I have to change 
> (in gnats & 
> >tkgnats) if I would like to have my own user-defined 
> SEVERITY and PRIORITY 
> >levels...
> >
> >Any ideas?
> 
> For GNATS, you would have to edit the source code and 
> rebuild, but I would 
> expect a good deal of breakage in different parts of GNATS as 
> a result -- 
> GNATS 3 really isn't meant for customizing in this way. 

When I had to add fields, most of it was pretty straightforward.
I grepped around to find where the fields were mentioned, and added
them in.  The really nasty part was when management demanded that
one field be added to the index, since that part of the Gnats 3.111
code is not straightforward.

If you're comfortable hacking the source code, you could try it and
see if it works.  Maybe things will break and maybe they won't.

> If I were you, I'd have alook at GNATS 4 instead, a 
> development version of 
> which is available at http://sources.redhat.com/gnats/. A 
> beta is expected 
> in the near future.
> 
Sounds nice, but some people would prefer not to run beta software
on production systems.  Modifying the source to get what you need
may be the better way.