365673 - dependency tree should allow dependency changes

Status: NEW

(Bugzilla :: User Interface, enhancement)

Description

[timeless]

speaking with a coworker about how trees might be used for requirements, it's clear that he wants to walk through bugs by selecting nodes in the tree and changing their dependency relations without loading the bug itself.

I know some people foolishly think tabs are the answer to all problems, but sometimes they really aren't.

basically in this mode either ajaxy or simply having

[depth: 1]
Bug 70978 depends on [ 70976, 294120 ]
 ?? open bugs (view as bug list | change several):

    *    70978: An OBJECT with exactly one of width or height given should be scaled proportionally [NEW ; assigned to [e-mail]; Target: ---] [See dependency tree for bug 70978]
          o    70976: Add intrinsic sizing support for NPAPI [NEW ; assigned to [e-mail]; Target: Future] [See dependency tree for bug 70976]
         Depends on: [184155]; Blocks: [61455, 70978, 160251, 162846, 176349, 302930]

          o    294120: Implement CSS2.1 algorithm for replaced element sizing [NEW ; assigned to [e-mail]; Target: ---] [See dependency tree for bug 294120]
         Depends on: [234686, 300030]; Blocks: [70978, 294086]

Bug 70978 blocks: [7954 321531]
2 open bugs ( view as bug list | change several):

    *    70978: An OBJECT with exactly one of width or height given should be scaled proportionally [NEW ; assigned to [e-mail]; Target: ---] [See dependency tree for bug 70978]
          o    7954: outstanding issues for full HTML 4.01 support [NEW ; assigned to [e-mail]; Target: ---] [See dependency tree for bug 7954]
          Depends on: [678 797 915 994 1044 1061 1312 1802 1882 1995 1996 2055 2068 2212 2590 2634 2749 2750 2800 2970 3166 3248 3326 3658 3687 3875 4050 6306 6782 7112 7230 7304 7515 7559 7670 7834 8131 8938 8979 9100 9140 10512 11229 11431 13015 13354 14088 14362 14445 15499 15545 15799 16157 16206 17962 18154 18357 18644 19312 20582 21076 21456 21638 22037 22480 22820 22842 24025 24113 24125 24366 24815 24861 25680 26282 26650 27828 27997 28293 28657 28823 30178 31451 32372 34297 34662 35700 35772 36790 36803 37083 37209 37862 38761 39901 40545 40623 40680 41368 41924 42180 42443 42532 42629 42753 44306 44396 44415 44465 45169 45375 45380 46475 46805 47078 47149 47163 47191 47522 47739 47760 47841 48256 48376 48445 50081 52433 53112 53908 53985 54119 54651 55285 55623 55987 55995 56088 56253 57028 57399 57478 57524 57882 58197 58887 59087 60375 62046 63916 64107 70978 72249 75185 77279 79836 84564 87428 88791 91468 91927 94269 94798 95549 96579 96658 96804 96976 99063 102896 102906 102907 102915 103053 105556 105693 106065 107621 109806 127137 127798 147446 151993 153920 162993 164979 192077 196735 209424 210826 277738]; Blocks: [		]
          o    321531: SVG in <object> doesn't size right [NEW ; assigned to [e-mail]; Target: ---] [See dependency tree for bug 321531]
          Depends on: [70978]; Blocks: [		]