343853 - offer a way to merge two flags

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 290755

(Bugzilla :: Attachments & Requests, enhancement, P4)

Description

[timeless]

minor note: currently bmo has about half a dozen review flags, most are really the same functionally, but for historical reasons they're distinct, this frequently causes pain.

i'd like to be able to merge a flag (flag-going-out-of-style) into another flag (survivor-flag) using the editflagtypes ui so that i could consolidate flags w/o losing flag data.

expected behaviors:
(option 1):
editing flag-going-out-of-style offers an option:
merge all instances of this flag type into: [list-of-all-other-compatible-flags|v]

(option 2):
editing survivor-flag offers an option:
annex this flag type: [list-of-all-other-compatible-flags|v]

option 2 as worded here definitely sounds awkward.

the result:
1. all inclusions from both are listed. any exclusion from 
flag-going-out-of-style that directly conflicts w. an inclusion in survivor-flag is listed in a box:

exclusion rules from flag-going-out-of-style that conflicted with rules from survivor-flag:
._________________________.
|                         |
| ...                     |
|_________________________|

exclusion rules from survivor-flag that conflicted with rules from flag-going-out-of-style:
._________________________.
|                         |
| ...                     |
|_________________________|


merged inclusion rules:
.__________________________________________________.
| Product1:__ALL__ (from surivor-flag)             |
| Product2:__ALL__ (from flag-going-out-of-style)  |
| Product3:__ALL__ (listed in both flags)          |
| ...                                              |
|__________________________________________________|

the labels should include a hint as above indicating which place provided a given inclusion. Rules in the list should be sorted alphabetically (not in some random definition order).

Comment 1

[Frédéric Buclin]

Same request as bug 290755, where the original and target flag names are the same.