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Bug 95652 - Hardware platform and Operating system fields are ambiguous
Summary: Hardware platform and Operating system fields are ambiguous
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Infrastructure
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Bugzilla (show other bugs)
Hardware: All All
: High enhancement (vote)
Assignee: Jeffrey Forman (RETIRED)
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Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2005-06-10 02:56 UTC by Clock
Modified: 2011-10-30 23:16 UTC (History)
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Description Clock 2005-06-10 02:56:57 UTC
"Hardware platform" can mean two things: hardware platform the user is running
on, or hardware platform the bug manifests on. Which meaning is the right one can
be deduced by opening the menu and seeing "All", as noone has computer based on
"All" hardware platform. However this can be frustrating for user, as it has been
frustrating to me.

I think it's better to state it directly. I suggest to change "Hardware platform"
to "Hardware platform the bug is supposed to manifest on" and the same with
Operating system.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1 Jeffrey Forman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-06-10 12:50:19 UTC
All is considered the default, in which most users do not touch this setting. As
is the case with the 'operating system' drop down. 
Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-06-10 13:19:07 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> All is considered the default, in which most users do not touch this setting. As
> is the case with the 'operating system' drop down. 

Jeffrey, if I don
Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-06-10 13:19:07 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> All is considered the default, in which most users do not touch this setting. As
> is the case with the 'operating system' drop down. 

Jeffrey, if I don´t touch these settings (the defaults are Other/Other), this is
what it get when submitting a bug:

Internal Error
	  	

Bugzilla has suffered an internal error. Please save this page and send it to
bugzilla@gentoo.org with details of what you were doing at the time this message
appeared.

URL: http://bugs.gentoo.org/post_bug.cgi
A legal Platform was not set.
Comment 4 Jeffrey Forman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-06-30 08:33:09 UTC
fixed right up.
default hardware platform is now All
default OS is now Linux