Closed Bug 72998 Opened 24 years ago Closed 19 years ago

Severity enhancement should set Platform/OS to All/All

Categories

(Bugzilla :: Creating/Changing Bugs, enhancement)

enhancement
Not set
normal

Tracking

()

VERIFIED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: matt, Assigned: myk)

References

(Depends on 1 open bug)

Details

When a user selects severity enchancement, the Platform and OS option menus should be set to All, since (I would think) the majority of enhancements are platform and OS neutral; if an enhancment isn't plaform/OS neutral, the user can then set them as appropriate.
Bit hard, because the concept of enhancement is not hardcoded in anywhere. And the proposal to split enhancement out of severity (bug #9412) doesn't do it either. Not sure what the best way to do this would be. Also, while Product is known before entering the bug, enhancement status isn't. So perhaps we could include Javascript buttons to change them to all/all or the browser detected setting. Or alternatively do something like: Platform/OS: [ ] All [ ] Browser Detected Settings Platform: Blah OS: Blah [ ] Other ... But I'm not sure that's worth it.
Under the "additional comments field" in Bugzilla, there's "Resolve bug, changing resoultion to" followed by a option menu; if you change the value of the option menu, then the active radio button gets set to "resolve bug". However this is done (with Javascript, I presume), the same sort of thing could be done when the severity field is set to "enhancement"; it doesn't seem like it should be that hard.
I'd be wary of doing this, since it means the user can't easily set an enhancement that is platform specific. Changing things behind people's back isn't a good idea.
Target Milestone: --- → Future
->Bugzilla product...
Assignee: tara → myk
Component: Bugzilla → Creating/Changing Bugs
Product: Webtools → Bugzilla
Version: other → unspecified
I don't think this should be done. There's no way of knowing a thing about "majority of enhancements" in all the world's Bugzilla installations. In some cases things can be extremely platform-specific. It's a bad thing to introduce behavior that can cause data loss. The horror scenario ;-): Reporter marks the os, sets enhancement severity (os is set to all), writes a description without mentioning the OS - after all, he DID set it earlier - and then submits. Boom! We have a feature report with no clue about what the OS might be. It's much easier for the QA to evaluate reports manually ("is this really OS-specific or not?") and then change the bug than what it is for them to try to find out which OS the reporter might have meant.
I don't think this is a good idea, too. Please leave this as it is. (There is so much more important to be done)
Summary: [RFE] Severity enhancement should set Platform/OS to All/All → Severity enhancement should set Platform/OS to All/All
This looks like an extension of Bug 9410, I'm adding a dependency.
Depends on: 9410
Too many people against this feature, including myself.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Target Milestone: Future → ---
i'm among them. dontfix
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
QA Contact: matty_is_a_geek → default-qa
You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.