From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Rick Macdonald <rickm@vsl.com>
To: Steve Kelem <kelem@adaptivesilicon.com>
Cc: gnats-devel <gnats-devel@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Subject: Re: How to add a field to the Gnats Data Base?
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 06:05:00 -0000
Message-id: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10005190656120.6239-100000@sys4>
References: <3924806D.5CBF5229@adaptivesilicon.com>
X-SW-Source: 2000-q2/msg00022.html

On Thu, 18 May 2000, Steve Kelem wrote:

> 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?

Put whatever single line of text you like. The intention I believe was
that Quarter was the number 1, 2, 3 or 4 indicating what billing quarter
the fix was required for, and Keywords was probably some extra
classification beyond what you might squeeze out of category and class.

...RickM...