330497 - Group userregexps length limit is too small

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Bugzilla :: Administration, task)

Description

[Roman Pszonka]

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group userregexps length is currently limited by TINYTEXT (255 chars) which is not enough if someone needs to define group with many people (and/or long logins...)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
editgroups.cgi


Expected Results:  
change sql type to TEXT (65535 chars) - this should be enough even for very big groups

also would be nice to reformat editgroups.cgi when long regexp is used

Comment 1

[timeless]

please excuse my ignorance.

why are you using regexp instead of manually adding people to the group?

Comment 2

[Roman Pszonka]

to add 20-30 people to the group I need to click on every user and then click the group, so I prefer regexp because it's faster! and less clicks ;) 

and another reason is that some people that are supposed to be in the group/project don't have accounts yet, when product group is created