Issue tracker silly fields: URL

[Julian Foad <ju...@btopenworld.com>]

Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> Perhaps I shouldn't rely on metadata fields for anything important.
> Sometimes I link to threads by setting the URL field to an archives
> link; I guess those links might be getting overlooked sometimes, too.

I
 tend to find the metadata fields less than useful in general. What's 
the point of a "URL" field? A bug report may have a couple of example 
repositories whose URLs could be referenced, a couple of email threads 
each archived at three different archives whose URLs could be 
referenced, a couple of patches stored off-site whose URLs could be 
referenced. Why provide a place that says "you can enter a URL here"? It's stupid, in my not-so-humble opinion.

- Julian