Bug 540707
| Summary: | Adding new comments should not automatically remove the 'needinfo' flag | ||
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| Product: | [Community] Bugzilla | Reporter: | John Poelstra <poelstra> |
| Component: | Creating/Changing Bugs | Assignee: | Simon Green <sgreen> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 4.2 | CC: | ebaak, robatino |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Reopened |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2012-09-07 12:49:00 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Red Hat Bugzilla is now using version 3.4 of the Bugzilla codebase and therefore this bug will need to be re-verified against the new release. With the updated code this bug may no longer be relevant or may have been fixed in the new code. Updating bug version to 3.4. Red Hat has now upgraded to Bugzilla 3.6 and this bug will now be reassigned to that version. It would be helpful to the Bugzilla Development Team if this bug is verified to still be an issue with the latest version. If it is no longer an issue, then feel free to close, otherwise please comment that it is still a problem and we will try to address the issue as soon as we can. Thanks Bugzilla Development Team In particular, the needinfo flag can be removed simply by subscribing to a bug, even with an empty comment (see bug 712081, for example). That should never happen. As part of the recent Bugzilla 4.2 upgrade the Bugzilla team are cleaning up bugs opened against old versions of Bugzilla. This bug has been flagged as an old bug and will be CLOSED WONTFIX in 7 days time. If you believe this bug is an issue in the latest Bugzilla version please comment on this bug within 7 days. Doing so will ensure this bug is not closed automatically. Thanks, the Bugzilla team. As part of the recent Bugzilla 2.4 upgrade the Bugzilla team are cleaning up bugs opened against old versions of Bugzilla. This bug has been flagged as an old bug and will be CLOSED WONTFIX in 7 days time. If you believe this bug is an issue in the latest Bugzilla version please comment on this bug within 7 days. Doing so will ensure this bug is not closed automatically. Thanks, the Bugzilla team. Reopening temporarily for a test. Testing to see if this comment removes the needinfo flag. Appears to still be present. Changing Version to 4.2. Resetting to defaults for PM consideration. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 850909 *** |
Description of problem: We made some mass changes to a number of bugzilla's and they lost their 'needinfo' flag setting. Noura asked me to file a bug for this. Here is the email thread from fedora-devel. ------ On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 22:03 +0100, MatΔj Cepl wrote: > > Dne 18.11.2009 21:07, Jeff Spaleta napsal(a): >> > > On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Jerry James <loganjerry> wrote: >>> > >> Should the NEEDINFO flag be cleared by adding such a comment? I >>> > >> didn't expect that. >> > > >> > > when you set the needinfo flag did you set it such that anyone could >> > > clear it or did you specifically require that the original reporter >> > > needed to reply in the bugzilla interface? > > > > But to be fait. Bugzappers should be conscious of this and careful not > > to liquidate needinfo by mistake, even when it was set incorrectly. To be clear (we went over this on IRC :>) the initial message talking about 'Bug Zapper' is talking about the automated F10 EOL bug housekeeping. Since that added a comment on each bug, if those bugs were in 'needinfo anyone' state, they're now not in it any more. =) there's not much we can do about that. but indeed, everyone should be careful to use needinfo appropriately. generally it's a bad idea to use the 'needinfo from anyone' flag as it will be cleared incorrectly far too often. -- Adam Williamson