Bugzilla as a task management tool

[David Miller]

On 7/11/2003 1:56 PM -0400, Jason Pyeron wrote:

> On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, David Miller wrote:
>
>> On 7/11/2003 12:04 PM -0400, Christopher Hicks wrote:
>>
>> > Can I start a new bug for this so we don't have to keep wading through the
>> > comments in the old one?
>>
>> I'd rather it stay on the same bug if it's fixing the same issue.  Someone
>> will probably make it a dupe if you file a new one.
>
> File new, summarize the detail from the old, then mark the old as a
> dup of the new?

Hmm, yeah, that's a thought.  The only possible bad thing about doing that
is all the people that have voted/CC list, etc.  It's sort of rude to
forcefully CC a bunch of people you don't know on the new bug.  But
probably putting a comment on the old bug that they should move their
votes/CCs to the new bug if they're still interested would suffice.  If
they still do, they probably will.  Let me know when the new bug is up with
the summary of the old one in place on it and I'll take care of duping the
original (so it has a mark of authority on it :)

Because of our lack of charset enforcement, the XML version of bug 9412
isn't parsable XML anyway.  Someone put some non-UTF8 characters in comment
29.  That chokes up our bot on IRC that spits out bug summaries when we
mention bug numbers because it can't read it :)
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