On 11/03/2015 09:13 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
You see that 'Clone' button in Bugzilla? You, yes you, with your cursor
hovering over it?
Don't do it! It's a trap.
Cloning a bug is almost never actually what you want to do. When you
clone a bug, all of the following are transferred to the new bug:
1. CCs
2. Description and comments, as one big ugly block as the new bug's
description
3. Pretty much all the metadata: whiteboard, keywords, tags,
dependencies. This includes stuff like blocker metadata, which is
almost never appropriate
4. External bug references
5. All sorts of other goddamn stuff
In my experience, you almost *never* actually wanted all of that.
Unless you really want a 2,000-line 'Description' which includes 50
comments and is entirely unreadable, everyone CCed on the old bug CCed
on the new bug, and all the metadata the same - just don't hit the
Clone button. Create a new bug and copy/paste anything relevant into
it.
In particular, Red Hat people, for the love of all that's holy, please
try not to clone Fedora bugs to RHEL unless it's really necessary! RHEL
bugs generate a metric assload of bureaucratic change emails that
Fedora contributors are almost never interested in. And no-one actually
likes trying to read those huge, unreadable clone bug Descriptions:
it's way, way nicer to create a new bug and cleanly summarize
whatever's actually relevant from the parent bug's description /
comments into the new one.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1277621
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