62551 - Hide unused components, rather that deleting

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 77193

(Bugzilla :: Administration, task, P3)

Description

[Eric Hanson]

In my company our product changes quiet abit over just 6 months, as such
components are created and dropped.  The reason for dropping are
aesthetic and functional, we have alot (bold) of components and if we
didn't drop the dead ones people might misassign bugs, wastes time, etc.
Since we have deleted components the bugs still stick around, but cause
sanity check errors because they have components that no longer exist.
I am not sure if this is because I updated our bugzilla from 2.4 to 2.10
or what.  Before we had 800 bugs, with the bug id at 1700, after the
upgrade a bunch of "missing" bugs appeared, we now have 1700 bugs, but
some of the bugs are really wierd, have to manually close through mysql
commands, bugzilla is sorta wierded out by the missing component deal.

So, if this happens normally, I was thinking it would be a good idea to
be able to "Retire" components.  Basically they would still exist in
some master list, but they would _not_ show up as choices when submitting a
bug or even querying a bug (this last might be another option).  Perhaps
a "Buried" component doesn't show in query or submit, but a "Retired"
component would show in a query screen.

Comment 1

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Hey, Myk, weren't you already working on something like this under a different 
bug number?

Comment 2

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

Moving to new Bugzilla product, and taking as a part of my refactoring work for
2.16.

Not sure about hiding stuff on the query page though ...

Comment 3

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

We are currently trying to wrap up Bugzilla 2.16.  We are now close enough to
release time that anything that wasn't already ranked at P1 isn't going to make
the cut.  Thus this is being retargetted at 2.18.  If you strongly disagree with
this retargetting, please comment, however, be aware that we only have about 2
weeks left to review and test anything at this point, and we intend to devote
this time to the remaining bugs that were designated as release blockers.

Comment 4

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

other bug is newer, but it has more discussion.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 77193 ***

Comment 5

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

clearing target milestone on invalid/duplicate/worksforme/wontfix bugs so
they'll show up as untriaged if they get reopened.

Comment 6

[Matt Perry]

Verified dupe