631201 - Extra fields for Target Milestone

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Bugzilla :: Administration, task)

Description

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Currently the Target Milestone has two possible fields:

* Milestone - A string limited to 20 chars (most textboxes seem limited to 24, why 20 here?)
* Sortkey  - Integer

Our development process maps releases into milestones, which have a date and an owner (like most software development processes do).

The idea is to have a way to attach custom extra fields to a target milestone, so that it is possible, for example, to set:

* Active/Inactive (using sortkey = 0 in the time being...)
* Priority / Relevance (using sortkey ranges in the time being...)
* Date (currently squeezed into Milestone field...)
* Owner (currently opening a Bug with a special token in the title and assigned to the owner...)

These workarounds seem unnatural and pose difficulties to integrate with other systems using Bugzilla API.

I think this would be a very welcomed feature from the community.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[miketosh]

IIRC, Bugzilla used to have a per-product parameter that gave a URL for milestones.

Comment 2

[miketosh]

Also, bug 448551 is a very similar bug, in terms of milestone length.

I think your priority/relevance problem should be covered with the sortkey.

I thought there was an open bug already for marking versions and targets as obsolete, but I cannot find it. Custom Fields already have this functionality (Enable for bugs) but they are not product-specific fields, and so wouldn't satisfy your needs here.

Comment 3

[Frédéric Buclin]

(In reply to comment #2)
> I thought there was an open bug already for marking versions and targets as
> obsolete, but I cannot find it.

That's because this feature has already been implemented.


 Custom Fields already have this functionality
> (Enable for bugs) but they are not product-specific fields

You can have per-product custom fields, and per-product values.

So we won't change the way target milestones work.