Solution to "not sure what component to file against" problems?

[Tom Lane]

Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> writes:
> On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 02:30 -0400, Christopher Beland wrote:
>> Someone a while back proposed adding a "000-Not-Sure-Which-Component"
>> component to Bugzilla, to prevent bugs being filed against 0xFFFF since
>> it is alphabetically first.  Presumably these would be sorted out by
>> triagers.

> To an extent I like it, but it may also rather encourage people to file
> bugs against it - it'd be the default selection, and people might just
> be lazy and leave it instead of looking through the list. I'd like to
> know we have a plan in place to cover the contingency of dozens of bugs
> a day being filed against this component, before we do this.

Well, we can try it for awhile, and if it seems to be getting abused
we can take it out of the list again, no?

Also, can't we still stick to the arrangement whereby there is not a
"default" selection but you're forced to actively choose something?

			regards, tom lane