Currently when someone selects NEEDINFO status when edit several bugs at once in buglist.cgi, it does not properly set the needinfo? flag. The same mechanism that is present when editing a single bug report for automatically setting the needinfo? flag with a requestee should be accessible from the multi edit page as well. The requestee field should not be filled it with assignee, reporter, and qa contact automatically since there are more than one value for those. But choosing one of the actors should choose the proper value when process_bug.cgi loops through the id list. Needinfo actor support will be redone for the 3.0 upgrade to be more simple and generic which should help with this. buglist.cgi template/en/default/list/edit-multiple.html.tmpl template/en/default/bug/knob.html.tmpl
Created attachment 286101 [details] Patch to add needinfo? for multi bug edit in process_bug.cgi This is not optimal as it requires that the needinfo flag is not set to allow 'multiple' flags in the editflagtypes.cgi admin interface. If is set to allow multiple, then more than one needinfo? flag could be set if people were to pick the same bug again in the multi edit list when changing status to NEEDINFO and the bug's status is already set to NEEDINFO.
Created attachment 286121 [details] Patch to add needinfo? for multi bug edit in process_bug.cgi (v2) Had too much other changes in the last process_bug.cgi patch. This one is just the needinfo change.
This should be part of the overall needinfo actor strategy and will be tracked from the base needinfo actory bug. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 406451 ***