bugzilla: obsolete components

[Jan Zerebecki]

Because it was asked:

We have to move all (including closed) bugs from a component into
others to remove that component. If an component is not empty
when it's removed all it's bugs also get removed.

But there is also the possibility to just leave obsolete
components around forever.

Jan

[James Hawkins]

On Jan 13, 2008 7:49 AM, Jan Zerebecki  wrote:
> Because it was asked:
>
> We have to move all (including closed) bugs from a component into
> others to remove that component. If an component is not empty
> when it's removed all it's bugs also get removed.
>
> But there is also the possibility to just leave obsolete
> components around forever.

I've switched the components to unknown on the following components,
so they can be removed:

console
directx-dshow
help
ipc
ports
resources

These are the counts of the remaining obsolete components:

binary - 1193
directx - 375
files - 137
gui - 358
multimedia - 139
winelib - 143

I'll correct these components at a rate of about 100 a day so as not
to spam the list too much.

[Dmitry Timoshkov]

"James Hawkins"  wrote:
> These are the counts of the remaining obsolete components:
>
> binary - 1193
> directx - 375
> files - 137
> gui - 358
> multimedia - 139
> winelib - 143
>
> I'll correct these components at a rate of about 100 a day so as not
> to spam the list too much.

Perhaps 'binary' could be automatically renamed to 'unknown' to avoid
too much of manual work? Others can be checked/renamed manually.

[James Hawkins]

On Jan 13, 2008 9:19 PM, Dmitry Timoshkov  wrote:
> "James Hawkins"  wrote:
> > These are the counts of the remaining obsolete components:
> >
> > binary - 1193
> > directx - 375
> > files - 137
> > gui - 358
> > multimedia - 139
> > winelib - 143
> >
> > I'll correct these components at a rate of about 100 a day so as not
> > to spam the list too much.
>
> Perhaps 'binary' could be automatically renamed to 'unknown' to avoid
> too much of manual work? Others can be checked/renamed manually.

I was wondering the same thing.  The other components were short so I
went ahead and changed those, but it would be great if we could
"rename" the remaining components to unknown.