Re: Removed lines in responsible

[Yngve Svendsen]

At 13:25 24.10.2002 +0200, Lars Henriksen wrote:
> Here is a proposal for a solution to the problems gnatsweb has with entries
> that have been removed from the responsible file. See also my previous email
> in this thread.

Committed. there were some problems with hash references, but I cleaned it up.

> It is a general solution for all unknown enumeration type values, not just
> responsible. The solution leaves the gnatsweb query format unchanged, i.e.
> enumeration values are still returned as integers.

In a longer perspective, we should probably look into stopping doing that. 
Using integer values messes up the sorting system for instance, since you 
do not get an alphabetical order of values when you sort query results on 
an enumerated value field ("sort" should rather be called "group" for that 
kind of field).

> The net effect is that for enumeration type values which are undefined,
> "unknown" is displayed in query results and is preselected in drop-down menues
> on the Edit page (thus forcing an explicit change).

I toyed with the idea of changing "unknown" to "Select value".

(snip)

> Finally, "unknown" is preselected as Category on the Create page. This is not
> related to the other changes. It forces users to select a category. Experience
> shows that users often forget to do so; the new PR is then created in the
> default category (pending, the first category in the categories file).

Good idea.

- Yngve