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Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:28:37 -0700
From: Rick Hillegas <Richard.Hillegas@Sun.COM>
Subject: Re: missing components
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Mike Matrigali wrote:

>
>
> Andrew McIntyre wrote:
>
>>
>> Does everything need to have a component? Clearly if there started to
>> be many of the same type of issue, we would want to create a new
>> category, but if it's a one-off sort of thing, is there a problem with
>> leaving things with no component assigned, or assigning it to the
>> Unknown component if it doesn't fit into any other current category?
>>
>> andrew
>>
>>
> It would be nice to be able to tell the difference between those people
> have just not set any component and those that someone has thought a bit
> about and just don't fit into any of the current buckets.  I have done
> the assign the component task a few times before and I am always left
> with a few I can't quite place, which I have left in unknown.  Then next
> time around I spend time looking at the same ones.
>
> Am I missing a "null" vs. "unknown" distinction?
>
One thing that's confusing here is that "Unknown" appears twice in the 
Component dropdown. I think that the top instance of "Unknown" may mean 
Null and the second instance near the bottom may mean Miscellaneous.