meaning of "Hardware" field in bugzilla?

[Scott Ritchie]

Austin English wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Juan Lang <juan.lang at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Does "mac" mean "powerpc mac only"?  I rather
>>> thought it meant "apple macintosh", regardless
>>> of cpu.  I ask because Austin has just gone through
>>> and changed lots of "mac" bugs to "pc" even
>>> though the bugs were on Intel macs, which just
>>> seems wrong.
>> I agree with you, this change seems suspect.  Austin, are you trying
>> to distinguish PPC bugs from x86 ones with this, or what?
>> --Juan
>>
>>
>>
> 
> I've seen the same change made a few times in the past (I'd have to
> search for it). Looking at other bugzilla's, Mozilla puts Intel Mac
> bugs under PC...after all, since they've moved to x86, for all intents
> and purposes, Intel Macs are PC's (especially if running Linux rather
> than OS X). Those running OS X still can be identified as such by the
> OS field.
> 
> Yes, my goal was to separate x86/ppc bugs.
> 

Then we should change the tab to read ppc rather than mac.

Thanks,
Scott Ritchie