533431 - blocking-thunderbird3.0 and status-thunderbird3.0 multi-state flags not cleared when moving to different components.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 576609

(bugzilla.mozilla.org :: General, defect)

Description

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

If someone moves a bug to a different component, then the multi-state flag isn't cleared if the flag doesn't exist in that component.

This has happened in bug 519962 where the bug was flagged as blocking-thunderbird3.0 = ? but then moved to Core, where we don't have the blocking-thunderbird3.0 flags.

I expect I can fix it by moving it back to a component where the state is valid and then back again, but it would be useful if at least the ? states for both blocking-thunderbird3.0 and status-thunderbird3.0 were cleared if necessary when moving.

Comment 1

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

This will be pretty difficult to implement...  the fields are actually global, and not product-specific.  We're using a little bit of smoke and mirrors in the templates to make them look like they're product-specific to avoid clutter on other products.  This will probably be possible in Bugzilla 3.8, don't know if it's worth hacking for our site before then.

Comment 2

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Ok, I don't think this is going to happen too often, so we can survive (I'll put a note somewhere pointing to this bug). I'm quite happy if we future this.