| Title | Long descriptions aren't replicated by Bugzilla integration |
| Status | closed |
| Priority | essential |
| Assigned user | Nick Barnes |
| Organization | Ravenbrook |
| Description | In Bugzilla, bugs have short descriptions (called "Summary" in the web interface) and long descriptions. Each bug may have many long descriptions; they carry a timestamp and are displayed in date order. They also carry user names. Currently these long descriptions are not replicated. Perhaps they should be; the short description can be too short and/or misleading. Note that it is not possible to edit or delete long descriptions from the Bugzilla web interface; only to submit new descriptions to be appended. |
| Analysis | Getting the long descriptions for a bug is easy enough, and they can be squirted into a Description field in Perforce with some sort of structure to separate description records. But replicating a change back from Perforce could be a challenge. We could do it by refusing changes which are not simply additions to the end of the structured Description field (such additions can be handled by adding a long description row). But will this lead to too many failed replications? It's essential to analyse this and decide whether it's important for users. RB 2000-11-29 |
| How found | inspection |
| Evidence | I just know. |
| Introduced in | 0.5.0 |
| Test procedure | <http://www.ravenbrook.com/project/p4dti/master/test/test_p4dti.py> |
| Created by | Nick Barnes |
| Created on | 2000-11-29 14:47:27 |
| Last modified by | Gareth Rees |
| Last modified on | 2001-12-10 19:05:38 |
| History | 2000-11-29 NB Created. |
| Change | Effect | Date | User | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7052 | closed | 2001-01-12 16:21:55 | Nick Barnes | Added longdesc support. |