577842 - Allow adding multiple URLs in URL field / Implement optional custom URL field with validation and linkification for multiple URLs

Status: NEW

(Bugzilla :: Creating/Changing Bugs, enhancement)

Description

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Current definition of URL field in bugzilla's documentation http://www.bugzilla.org/docs/3.6/en/html/bug_page.html is
> URL:  A URL associated with the bug, if any

Given the complexity of modern software and their bug trackers, IMO it is no longer adequate to restrict this field to a single URL. The benefits of adding multiple URLs as needed are obvious.

STR

1 a bugzilla installation requires their users to sometimes add more than one URL that is "associated with the bug"

actual

impossible for the URL field; "see also" doesn't help either as it is limited to certain URLs instead of accepting any URLs

expected

Allow adding multiple URLs in URL field, with a (customizable?) separator like ", "


Btw, "A URL associated with the bug, if any" is no longer a very specific explanation (needs new bug) now that we also have "See also". Bmo skips the field explanation altogether, as we wrongly link the URL: field header with the actual URL instead of https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=fields.html#URL, which doesn't exist yet (needs new bug).

Comment 1

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

Attachment: v1 - patch for bug 577851

This fixes it.

Comment 2

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Thank you! That was quick! Any other bugs that could be solved in this manner? ;)

Comment 3

[Frédéric Buclin]

Comment on attachment 456691 [details] [diff] [review]
v1 - patch for bug 577851

Wrong bug! Your patch is for bug 577851.

Comment 4

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

Also, BTW, you can add URLs as attachments to bugs if the right parameter is turned on. So this is WONTFIX, probably.

Comment 5

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Also, BTW, you can add URLs as attachments to bugs if the right parameter is
> turned on. So this is WONTFIX, probably.

1) Is that parameter turned on for BMO?
2) Adding multiple URLs as attachments is much more difficult and much less visible, compared to adding them as values of the URL field
3) You don't think having a (custom) field for adding multiple URLs might be useful for many installations?

(In reply to comment #3)
> Comment on attachment 456691 [details] [diff] [review]
> Wrong bug! Your patch is for bug 577851.
Looking at the patch, I did have doubts it would fix this bug, bug then hope for a miracle won over reason... ;)

Comment 6

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Comment on attachment 456691 [details] [diff] [review]
v1 - patch for bug 577851

@Max:
- It would be really cool to have this bug assigned to you, but if you just mistakenly assigned yourself without real intention to fix this, then please remove yourself as assignee (I am asking because you assigned yourself when you accidentally posted your patch here to the wrong bug, as per comment 3).
- To move this bug forward, I'd appreciate some feedback on my questions from comment 5. Adding URLs as attachments (as suggested in comment 4), even if it were enabled on BMO which I think is not the case, does seem a fundamentally different use case and more complex behaviour compared to just adding multiple URLs into a single URL field as bug-related references.

Comment 7

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

ping?
I'd still appreciate a reaction on my points from comment 5 and comment 6 last half.

An illustration of problems caused by this bug:

Bug 244347 - cannot change sort order of accounts

I just wanted to add a getsatisfaction URL to that bug, but there is nowhere I could do so:
- the URL field is taken by an equally important reference to an addon that works around the bug; the addon URL cannot be moved to the "See also" field, due to Bug 577847 - "See also" field should accept any URL
- I cannot add the getsatisfaction URL to "See Also" field, due to Bug 571740 - Cannot add getsatisfaction links/URLs to "See also" field (as a subset of bug 577847).

So where can I add the getsatisfaction link as a real link to the top section of the bug, as opposed to buried somewhere in the comments?

Wouldn't this bug be an easy fix for such problems?

Comment 8

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

^^

Comment 9

[Frédéric Buclin]

What you want is bug 533604, then make it accept multiple URLs.

Comment 10

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

More than 1 year later, this bug and bug 577847 (esp. bug 571740 and friends) are still significant workflow breakers which prevent users from adding useful links to a bug.