at some point, we had a new component added: Keywording & stabilization. seems to be completely redundant with the Keywords: KEYWORDREQ and Keywords: STABLEREQ. please to punt the useless component.
See bug 213514 - So we probably should remove the keywords instead.
I think a extra component for keywording and stabilization makes more sense than using Keywords.
i dont. we have dedicated products/components for some of our packages, and injecting a new component in there doesn't work. however, Keywords is a parallel field and automatically works every existing product/component. so in the case of using Keywords, not only can the arch teams easily set up a query to locate all of the open bugs, but so can maintainers. but by breaking the Component field, maintainers can no longer easily locate all their bugs. further, having a single component makes it impossible to sort between stable requests and keyword requests.
I also doubt about this, if I don't misremember, most arch teams are looking for STABLEREQ/KEYWORDREQ keywords instead of components. I am not sure about the disadvantages of using keywords as we are doing now :/
Another advantage is that we can split keywording and stabilization with the keywords
Any news about this? :/
Arch teams are actively using and requiring the component, so I don't see a problem. If you want things to change, get a wider agreement. You know the drill.
It looks like after the components reorganization... this was fixed ;)
