Comment 7 for bug 54652

On 19-Sep-06, at 3:15 AM, Björn Tillenius wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 09:42:17PM -0000, Brad Bollenbach wrote:
>> kiko, Bjorn, what do you guys think of a Bug.workaround field?
>
> The idea itself isn't too bad, it would probably encourage people to
> add workarounds to bugs (since it's easier to know that you could
> do it
> if there's a special field for it, rather than having it be part of
> the
> description). The downside is that it would be yet another thing on
> the
> bug page, so I think it would be better to try to drive the users to
> add it to the description instead.

I think the pros outweigh the con of adding a new field. And:

   * a workaround can affect bug heat, probably by decreasing it
slightly
   * release managers can worry slightly less about bugs that have
workarounds

The problems mpt mentioned of people continuing to put workarounds in
comments, and people not changing or removing inaccurate workarounds
is the same when using the description; if anything, I think a
separate field will increase the likelihood of it being kept accurate
and up-to-date.