bugzilla help needed - drop down 'Assigned To' Box

[David Miller]

On 11/22/02 4:25 PM -0600, Debashish.Ghosh at firstdatacorp.com wrote:

> Hi,
> I work for a fairly large company (Fortune 100). We are primarily a
> mainframe based company using a tool called Infoman for our bug reporting
> and handling. However lately there has been  a push to incorporate a web
> based bug reporting tool and what better (and free) than Bugzilla. It will
> be initially used by the team  I work in and will be rolled out in a
> phased manner to other teams. And I have been chosen the Bugzilla
> administrator!!!!!!

Very cool. :-)

> We right now use Bugzilla 2.14.2 and I have some customising questions.

You should get 2.14.4 at a bare minimum (security fixes) and 2.16.1 if you
want supported code, as we won't be supporting the 2.14 series after
December this year.

> I have defined a generic group so that nobody other than the users in the
> grp can access bugs defined to that grp. Now, the requirement is when one
> creates  a new bug all the users named in that grp will show in a drop down
> box in the 'Assigned to' box. I am not conversant with Perl so  a little
> hand holding will be greatly appreciated.

There has been a lot of talk on this exact subject on the general mailing
list/newsgroup in the last week or two.  You should check out the archives
and join in the conversation.
news://news.mozilla.org/netscape.public.mozilla.webtools  I haven't done a
whole lot with that myself yet, but there is supposed to be a patch out
there that does this already.  You'll find references to it in that thread.
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Dave Miller      Project Leader, Bugzilla Bug Tracking System
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