361720 - clone a bug to several products at once

Status: NEW

(Bugzilla :: Creating/Changing Bugs, enhancement)

Description

[neo.01]

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If there are several products in bugzilla which are built out of partly the same SW modules then we use the clone feature of bugzilla to add the bug also to the other products. For each product this cloning has to be repeated manually.
It would be very handy if it would be possible to select several products at once during cloning of a bug.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Frédéric Buclin]

This looks pretty hard as you have many product-specific fields. How could you specify these fields for each cloned bug in a single step??

Comment 2

[Roy]

*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***

Comment 3

[neo.01]

One way could be to add new shortcut to the bug page: Multiple Clone
This displays then a page with all the products with checkboxes to select and additionally drop down box to select the affected component.
Would that be possible?

Comment 4

[timeless]

it's possible, but not recommended.

What if I want to clone a bug to two components in one product and two other components in two other products?

What precisely do you gain by trying to make any of these use cases work?

I think you're better off not trying to make such a thing work.

(yes, we use cloning where I work, and yes I've never found cloning to be a good idea.)

I'd simply recommend you use file a new bug, start filling it in including a dependency and then use the bookmarkable template button. Finally, change the product from there as you repeat your filings.

It's very hard for you to guarantee that you will always want the same or always want different values for keywords, flags, assignees, status whiteboards, etc.