Unexpected bugzilla behaviour

Unexpected bugzilla behaviour

[Gary Thomas]

I was making a reply to bug #1570 and the next thing I know I had
a full-up page for bug #1587 where I errantly added an attachment.

My recall was that bugzilla would stay with the bug you're working
on - I could make a comment and then add an attachment without leaving
the same bug report.  That doesn't seem to be the case now and it
left me not only confused but putting comments and attachments in
the wrong place.

Did this change with the bugzilla "upgrade"?

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Re: Unexpected bugzilla behaviour

[Paul Eggleton]

On Monday 28 May 2012 11:39:46 Gary Thomas wrote:
> I was making a reply to bug #1570 and the next thing I know I had
> a full-up page for bug #1587 where I errantly added an attachment.
> 
> My recall was that bugzilla would stay with the bug you're working
> on - I could make a comment and then add an attachment without leaving
> the same bug report.  That doesn't seem to be the case now and it
> left me not only confused but putting comments and attachments in
> the wrong place.
> 
> Did this change with the bugzilla "upgrade"?

AFAIK Bugzilla has always had this mis-feature. The worst thing is it's not 
consistent - if you didn't have a bug "list" (previous search results) then it 
will stay on the current bug.

I've even heard of a Firefox add-on that will override this behaviour, but I 
never looked into it.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre

Re: Unexpected bugzilla behaviour

[Richard Purdie]

On Tue, 2012-05-29 at 10:57 +0100, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> On Monday 28 May 2012 11:39:46 Gary Thomas wrote:
> > I was making a reply to bug #1570 and the next thing I know I had
> > a full-up page for bug #1587 where I errantly added an attachment.
> > 
> > My recall was that bugzilla would stay with the bug you're working
> > on - I could make a comment and then add an attachment without leaving
> > the same bug report.  That doesn't seem to be the case now and it
> > left me not only confused but putting comments and attachments in
> > the wrong place.
> > 
> > Did this change with the bugzilla "upgrade"?
> 
> AFAIK Bugzilla has always had this mis-feature. The worst thing is it's not 
> consistent - if you didn't have a bug "list" (previous search results) then it 
> will stay on the current bug.
> 
> I've even heard of a Firefox add-on that will override this behaviour, but I 
> never looked into it.

Its always done this but there is an option in your preferences to stop
it doing it. I know I set that a while ago for me and it is still set
after the upgrade...

Cheers,

Richard