308943 - Remove autofill build-id for non-browser products on guided enter bug page

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(bugzilla.mozilla.org :: General, defect)

Description

[gekacheka]

The guided bug page autofills the build-id with the userAgent from the browser.  

This is only appropriate for the browser products (firefox/seamonkey/camino).

For non-browser products (thunderbird, sunbird), the build-id of the browser
does not accurately report which version of the non-browser product they are
using, and discourages users from supplying the build id because the field
already looks filled.

Steps to reproduce:

Guided bug page for Thunderbird
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Thunderbird&format=guided

Guided bug page for Sunbird
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Calendar&format=guided

Actual results:  Build id field is filled with BROWSER user agent string

Expected results:  Build id field is blank

Note: the guided help page inserts two lines like the following into the bug
description:

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10)
Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10)
Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

Leaving the Build Id field blank will only leave the build-id line blank, and
the user-agent line will still contain the browswer info, so this change does
not risk losing any clues from the browser build id.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

There's a patch for this attached to bug 308950.

Gerv

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

*** Bug 356356 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Wayne: what do you mean by "a workaround rather than a fix"? How would you fix it instead?

Gerv

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This should now do the right thing in CVS Bugzilla (see bug 308950).

Gerv