Open Bug 963585 Opened 10 years ago Updated 1 month ago

Editing bug fields (e.g. depends on or blocks) should allow editing the alias instead of the bug number

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(Bugzilla :: Creating/Changing Bugs, defect)

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(Reporter: MattN, Unassigned)

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The default view shows the aliases but when I click the "edit" link, it shows the bug numbers in the text field. The switch from aliases to numbers is confusing and makes it harder to switch from one alias to a similar one. e.g. from "australis" to "australis-cust". If the textbox had aliases instead of number this would mean just appending 5 characters whereas now I have to delete the correct bug number and then replace it with the whole new alias.
Severity: normal → minor
I would like to work on this bug. Any suggestions on how to proceed?
ishitva: Do you have a specific question? If so, please ask it.
Because "check out the code, find places, make changes, test changes, create patch" is my answer to "suggestions on how to proceed", but not sure if that was really what you wanted to know plus it's entirely unrelated to the specific problem in this specific bug. Also see http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#explicit
See https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bugzilla:Developers for getting started (steps 1 & 2 are optional since you have already picked a bug).
(In reply to Andre Klapper from comment #2)
> ishitva: Do you have a specific question? If so, please ask it.
> Because "check out the code, find places, make changes, test changes, create
> patch" is my answer to "suggestions on how to proceed", but not sure if that
> was really what you wanted to know plus it's entirely unrelated to the
> specific problem in this specific bug. Also see
> http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#explicit

Sorry for not clearly explaining the question.I will definitely take care of your suggestions now onwards.

I wanted to know about:
1)What "aliases" refer to here? In my local development version I can see only the bug numbers in the "Depends on:" and "Blocks:" fields. How do I look at the aliases for the bugs?

2)The code for these fields is located here http://mxr.mozilla.org/bugzilla/source/template/en/default/list/edit-multiple.html.tmpl#234 .May I get a hint on how to implement the feature of making the aliases editable?

Regards
Ishitva
(In reply to Ishitva Goel from comment #4)
> I wanted to know about:
> 1)What "aliases" refer to here? In my local development version I can see
> only the bug numbers in the "Depends on:" and "Blocks:" fields. How do I
> look at the aliases for the bugs?

Click "(edit)" next the a bug summary and an "Alias" field will appear.
(In reply to Ishitva Goel from comment #4)
> I wanted to know about:
> 1)What "aliases" refer to here?

Bug aliases. See e.g. the dependency lists in bug 286269.



> 2)The code for these fields is located here
> http://mxr.mozilla.org/bugzilla/source/template/en/default/list/edit-
> multiple.html.tmpl#234

No, that's not the right code. You want
  http://mxr.mozilla.org/bugzilla/source/template/en/default/bug/edit.html.tmpl#961
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