40666 - [RFE] Auto-Update old bugs.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Bugzilla :: Bugzilla-General, enhancement, P3)

Description

[John Dobbins]

I just did a search of M1 thru M15. 21 Bugs are assigned to milestones that are
released. Some of them just seem to have been overlooked, some were reopened and
retain the old milestone. Bugzilla should automaticaly assign the current
milestone as the target for any bug that is reopened. Whenever a new milestone
is released Bugzilla should reset any open bugs that were assigned to that
milestone to the new current milestone.

Comment 1

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

See also bug #16743.

I'm not sure either way whether this is the right thing to do.  Most people on 
mozilla.org seem to reassign to '---', but I definitely understand the current
milestone rationale.

Comment 2

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

Another thought - what happens if an admin changes the milestone accidentally to
something far in the future?

Comment 3

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

For the reasons I mentioned above, I suggest we WONTFIX this one and instead go
for a manual solution such as bug #16743.

Comment 4

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Agreed.  I've seen to many mistakes happen and trying to repair the damage from 
an automatic reassignment like that after an accident would be pretty heavy.

Comment 5

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

moving to Bugzilla product
reassign to default owner/qa for INVALID/WONTFIX/WORKSFORME/DUPLICATE

Comment 6

[Brant Gurganus]

[RFE] is deprecated in favor of severity: enhancement.  They have the same meaning.