103605 - Edit several attachments at once (Change-Multiple for Attachments)

Status: NEW

(Bugzilla :: Attachments & Requests, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Andreas Franke (gone)]

There should be a page (for example reachable through an "Edit All" link on the
bug page) where you can edit the flags for multiple attachments at once. This is
especially useful for marking attachments as obsolete. There are often a
handfull attachments in a bug, and usually most of the time only the last one is
relevant. However, to mark n attachments obsolete, you currently have to make n
changes (resulting in n emails getting sent to people), so almost nobody does
this.

Alternatively, if you don't want to create an extra page for this, you could
offer the ability to toggle the "obsolete" status for attachments on the bug
page itself. The attachments table is already shown there. However, this may
make it too easy to change a status by accident.

Another alternative: Extend the "edit (single) attachment" page and add the
ability to mark multiple attachments as obsolete there. However, this is not
very clean conceptually.

You may also want to consider offering this functionality on the "create
attachment" page, since it would be useful quite often to mark one or more
existing attachments as obsolete when you add a new one.

Comment 1

[Jacob Steenhagen]

See also bug 98111 which is being fixed as part of bug 98602.

Comment 2

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

Myk, we have this now, right?

Comment 3

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

We are currently trying to wrap up Bugzilla 2.16.  We are now close enough to
release time that anything that wasn't already ranked at P1 isn't going to make
the cut.  Thus this is being retargetted at 2.18.  If you strongly disagree with
this retargetting, please comment, however, be aware that we only have about 2
weeks left to review and test anything at this point, and we intend to devote
this time to the remaining bugs that were designated as release blockers.

Comment 4

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

This is done for the "create attachment" page but not for any other.  Perhaps it
should be.  I like the idea of an "Edit All" page.  In any case, I'm leaving
this open since there is room for more enhancement in this regard.

Comment 5

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

I think a bulk change for attachments is the right way to do things.

I think the appropriate interface should be:

Checkbox for each attachment, like bulk change page

Obsolete: [ Set Obsolete / Set Not Obsolete / No Change ]
Patch: [ Set Obsolete / Set Not Obsolete / No Change ]

MIME Type: [                 ] (Leave Blank For No Change)

Add Statuses   : ...
Remove Statuses: ...

The add/remove statuses should either be a set of checkboxes or a text field
like keywords for bugs.

Add should be checkboxes if the number of statuses not on ALL attachments is
less than a specific number, and remove should be if the number of statuses on
ANY attachments is less than the same number.

Comment 6

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

All 2.18 bugs that haven't been touched in over 60 days and aren't flagged as
blockers are getting pushed out to 2.20

Comment 7

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

This bug has not been touched by its owner in over six months, even though it is
targeted to 2.20, for which the freeze is 10 days away. Unsetting the target
milestone, on the assumption that nobody is actually working on it or has any
plans to soon.

If you are the owner, and you plan to work on the bug, please give it a real
target milestone. If you are the owner, and you do *not* plan to work on it,
please reassign it to [e-mail] or a .bugs component owner. If you are
*anybody*, and you get this comment, and *you* plan to work on the bug, please
reassign it to yourself if you have the ability.

Comment 8

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

Morphing the summary to what's described in comment 5.

Comment 10

[Frédéric Buclin]

No need to put all possible synonyms in the bug summary. Let's keep it readable.

Comment 11

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

In that case...