370050 - Configurable option for Restriction/Warning when changing status to ASSIGNED/INPROGRESS and not being the assigned user

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Bugzilla :: Creating/Changing Bugs, enhancement)

Description

[Andrés G. Aragoneses]

As exaplained here[1], it would be interesting to show a warning to the user when he requests to change a bug to ASSIGNED and the user is not the person in Assigned-To field, like this:

- You have requested to change the status of this bug to ASSIGNED while you are not the person in the Assigned-To field. Are you sure about this change?

[ ] Yes  [ ] Yes, but assign the bug to me.  [ ] No, cancel the change and go back.


We could add a preference in bugzilla for this feature:

Can the status ASSIGNED be set by a person that is not the assigned user for the bug?

[ ] Yes.    [ ] Yes, but warn about it (default).   [ ] No.

In case of selecting the last option ("No"), the warning message would be a little bit different:


- You have requested to change the status of this bug to ASSIGNED, but you are not the person in the Assigned-To field. Do you want to assign this bug to you so as to be able to apply this change?

[ ] Yes.  [ ] No, cancel the change and go back.

Comment 1

[Andrés G. Aragoneses]

Forgot the reference link:
[1] http://groups.google.es/group/mozilla.support.bugzilla/browse_thread/thread/c16f51b4aa9b77ec/b4b90ae6b7c95586?lnk=gst&q=assigned+knocte&rnum=3

Comment 2

[Frédéric Buclin]

We are not going to implement a preference for this. Your users are confused by the word "ASSIGNED" which should be replaced by "ACCEPTED". There are many bugs (most are duplicates) about this story.

Comment 3

[Andrés G. Aragoneses]

Reopening. I gave reasons at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104049#c16 .

Comment 4

[Frédéric Buclin]

We still won't implement your request. With the implemention of custom bug statuses (bug 101179), ASSIGNED is no longer a special bug status and your request is too specific to the meaning of the word "ASSIGNED". What we will do is to let admins add hooks so that they can add they own rules to the status workflow, but in no case we will implement them in Bugzilla itself, because that's definitely not something everybody wants.