1191639 - If I edit a tag "saved search" from a pre-new-tag-mechanism Bugzilla in a new-tag-mechanism Bugzilla, it's empty

Status: NEW

(Bugzilla :: Bugzilla-General, defect)

Description

[Guy Harris]

Back when the Wireshark bug database was using a version of Bugzilla in which "tags" were named lists of bugs, I created several tags with names containing spaces.  The documentation for this feature in Bugzilla 4.0, at

    https://www.bugzilla.org/docs/4.0/en/html/query.html#individual-buglists

says

    This feature is useful when you want to keep track of several bugs, but for different reasons. Instead of adding yourself to the CC list of all these bugs and mixing all these reasons, you can now store these bugs in separate lists, e.g. "Keep in mind", "Interesting bugs", or "Triage".

which at least suggests that tags can have spaces in them.

Then Wireshark switched to a later version of Bugzilla, with the Shiny New Tagging System.

The "saved searches" corresponding to those tags were preserved, although they didn't show up in the page footer (as they had in the past) until I checked the "Show in Footer" checkbox for them - minor nuisance, although that was a bit of the Principle of Least Surprise being violated (maybe that was a choice offered to the Bugzilla administrator when they upgraded).

However, if I try to edit one of those saved searches, it's empty - it's not checking any tags, or anything else.

Is it still an old-style tag "saved search", consisting only of a list of bugs?  If so, then:

  if that feature is still supposed to be supported, there needs to be UI for it;

  if that feature is *not* still supposed to be supported, the saved searches should have been converted to a search on the tag field.

Comment 1

[Frédéric Buclin]

(In reply to Guy Harris from comment #0)
> However, if I try to edit one of those saved searches, it's empty - it's not
> checking any tags, or anything else.
> 
> Is it still an old-style tag "saved search", consisting only of a list of
> bugs?

When you click one of these old saved searches, what is printed in the search description at the top of the buglist?

If you see: Bug ID 1245, 5554, 9821, etc... it's the old format

If you see: Personal Tags FooBar it's the new format

Comment 2

[Guy Harris]

(In reply to Frédéric Buclin from comment #1)
> When you click one of these old saved searches, what is printed in the
> search description at the top of the buglist?
> 
> If you see: Bug ID 1245, 5554, 9821, etc... it's the old format
> 
> If you see: Personal Tags FooBar it's the new format

This is 4.4.8, not 5.x, so it just says "Tags: <tags>", so it's the new format.

The tags show up nowhere in the edit form if I try to edit the search; the only place I see for tags in that form is the "Custom Search" section, and that section is empty.

Comment 3

[Sebastian Hengst [:aryx] (needinfo me if it's about an intermittent or backout)]

Also seeing this with bugzilla.mozilla.org version 2017.03.07. Creating a new tag-based saved search and editing afterwards works as expected.