'related to' bugs vs. dependent bugs

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:25:16 -0700 Lisa Henry <lyhenry at speakeasy.net>
wrote:
> One of our groups uses bug cloning in their workflow, but the bug 
> dependency that is set up is not always what they want.  We have 
> 'noresolveonopenblockers' turned on.  A user poll showed that some 
> people do want the resolution blocking feature, others find it
> annoying, and just clear the 'blocks' or 'depends on' field in order
> to resolve the bug.  Several users suggested that a third field
> (something like 'related to') along with the 'blocks' and 'depends
> on'  would be a solution.  We would want the tree view and graphing
> capability, but would not want related bugs to block resolution.

	That sounds like you just shouldn't be using
noresolveonopenblockers.

> Before I start looking into this, does anyone have suggestions as to
> the best way to accomplish this?  I've done a bit of customization,
> but prefer not to if there is a more supported method.

	We've had some discussion about it (about 8 years worth,
apparently):

	https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12286

	-Max
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