From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Steve Kelem <kelem@adaptivesilicon.com>
To: Rick Macdonald <rickm@vsl.com>
Cc: gnats-devel <gnats-devel@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Subject: Re: How to add a field to the Gnats Data Base?
Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 16:44:00 -0000
Message-id: <3924806D.5CBF5229@adaptivesilicon.com>
References: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10005120611400.29066-100000@sys4>
X-SW-Source: 2000-q2/msg00021.html

Is there any guidance for how the Keywords and Quarter fields should be used?
What was the intention?  Are they user-defined fields, and we can put whatever we
want there?

Thanks,
Steve

Rick Macdonald wrote:

> On Thu, 11 May 2000, Steve Kelem wrote:
>
> > Thanks for your help!  There doesn't seem to be any documentation on the
> > release-based fields (like what type of values they take, and whether there
> > are any restrictions on the values). gnatsweb-2.7beta seems to know the fields
> > might be in the data base, but doesn't seem to do anything with them.
>
> Date-Required is recognized as a date, Keywords and Quarter are text
> fields like Originator or Synopsis.
>
> ...RickM...