775538 - Do not tell the user that their changes will override changes made by others in a mid-air screen if that is not true

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 98077

(Bugzilla :: User Interface, defect)

Description

[(no longer active)]

There are some changes such as CC field changes, attachment flag changes, comments etc which will not be reverted if you just resubmit a mid-air page, but Bugzilla tells me otherwise.  This is confusing.

Comment 1

[:glob ✱]

while i agree that cc changes shouldn't trigger a mid-air, other changes made to a bug, while not in direct conflict with yours, may impact the reasons for your changes, so it's important for these to be displayed.

Comment 2

[(no longer active)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> while i agree that cc changes shouldn't trigger a mid-air, other changes made
> to a bug, while not in direct conflict with yours, may impact the reasons for
> your changes, so it's important for these to be displayed.

I disagree, but that is not the point!  The mid-air page says: "This will cause all of the above changes to be overwritten".  That is a lie, and it causes people to revisit the bug and make the exact same changes in the fear of reverting somebody else's change which would not happen anyway.

Comment 3

[:glob ✱]

ah, indeed. sorry about that.

Comment 4

[Frédéric Buclin]

Old story...