327193 - Investigate What Backwards-Compatibility Code Can Be Removed for Bugzilla 3.0

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Bugzilla :: Bugzilla-General, defect)

Description

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

There's a lot of backwards-compatibility code for things in various places in Bugzilla, preserving compatibility as far back as 2.8 for some things.

Certain stuff might just be able to go, and we could clean up the code. Of course, some of it we might want to keep. We'll have to investigate what can be removed that's just backwards-compatibility code that we don't need anymore.

Comment 1

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

If anybody has any suggestions for things that could be removed, suggest them and we can discuss it here.

Comment 2

[Douglas Calvert]

How about "Conversion of groups created with ALNC Ticket Ledger versions 2.16 and prior" on editgroups.cgi? Isn't 2.16 going to be debian support only from now on?

Comment 3

[Joel Peshkin]

(In reply to comment #2)
> How about "Conversion of groups created with ALNC Ticket Ledger versions 2.16
> and prior" on editgroups.cgi? Isn't 2.16 going to be debian support only from
> now on?
> 
If you mean the migration of 2.16 and prior groups, I do not think we should break migration code.  We could, however, get rid of the useentrygroupdefault parameter and the legacy behavior it has.

Comment 4

[Douglas Calvert]

(In reply to comment #3)
> If you mean the migration of 2.16 and prior groups, I do not think we should
> break migration code.  We could, however, get rid of the useentrygroupdefault
> parameter and the legacy behavior it has.
> 

That is a legacy feature? I just started to use it. It makes life easier when it comes to dividing up a bugzilla installation across many users. Why would you get rid of it? I must be missing something...

Comment 5

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

Looks like Firefox did some strange selecting of the group radio boxes on the mass-change page when I clicked refresh in my browser before that last mass-change. This is not really a security bug. :-)

Comment 6

[Frédéric Buclin]

WONTFIX per discussion with mkanat on IRC.