340608 - page rejecting changes because of lack of credentials should allow the user to ask it to only make a list of changes

Status: NEW

(Bugzilla :: Creating/Changing Bugs, enhancement)

Description

[timeless]

roc was trying to cc himself to the bug, and maybe add a comment.

unfortunately, the bug summary had some evil magical character in it.

roc didn't have editbugs, so when he tried to cc himself to the bug, he got an error message. i'm used to seeing this error message from the days when bugzilla would have a leading/trailing space in the summary and the first person to touch the bug would be forced to try to change the summary to remove the space.

of course, looking at bug activity showed that gavin had cc'd himself to the bug w/o changing the summary. so it wasn't a leading/trailing space.

actual results (summarized):
an error message which says approximately "we won't let you change anything because you tried to change the summary which you aren't allowed to do"

expected results (ideal):

What    |Values      |Action  
--------+------------+----------------
Summary |Old: BlahE  |(*) leave the old value alone
        |Entered:Blah|** You are not allowed to change this field **
--------+------------+----------------
AddCC   |Old:1cc     |(*) leave the old value alone
        |Entered:roc |( ) use the previously entered value
        |[roc       ]|( ) use this replacement value
--------+------------+----------------

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Note: roc suggests that bugzilla simply ignore changes you aren't permitted to make and apply the rest, while showing a warning.

the reasons i'd rather a conflict ui are:
1. sometimes you make a comment which references other changes, if you can't make those other changes, your comment doesn't make sense. sometimes it's worse. imagine you're trying to replace one flag with another, but you're only allowed to remove one + flag and not set ? for a replacement. and you couldn't undo the clearing of the + flag.
2. ideally this system could grow to help with conflict resolution :)