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Bug 681608 - don't fail to file if a reporter doesn't specify a component
don't fail to file if a reporter doesn't specify a component
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 508008
Product: bugzilla.gnome.org
Classification: Infrastructure
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: Bugzilla 4.4
Assigned To: Bugzilla Maintainers
Bugzilla Maintainers
Depends on: 694344
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-08-10 16:13 UTC by William Jon McCann
Modified: 2015-01-02 17:31 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Attachments
no component selected (159.48 KB, image/png)
2013-02-21 09:35 UTC, Christian Kirbach 		Details

Description William Jon McCann 2012-08-10 16:13:00 UTC 
I regularly forget to specify a component when filing a bug. This is really annoying because the submission fails. It would be much much better to have a default component that essentially means "untriaged".

Maybe this can be done by having all products have a general component or by having per module default components.
Comment 1 André Klapper 2012-08-10 16:36:08 UTC 
Seems to be doable in a rather hackish manual way ( https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=317051 links to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36843 which requires changing templates).
Comment 2 Christian Kirbach 2013-02-21 09:35:07 UTC 
Created attachment 237020 [details]
no component selected
Comment 3 Christian Kirbach 2013-02-21 09:36:02 UTC 
Fixed in upstream Bugzilla version 4.4

bug 694344
Comment 4 Christian Kirbach 2013-02-21 23:08:32 UTC 
It is actually fixed in Bugzilla 4.2 as well
Comment 5 William Jon McCann 2013-02-22 00:44:09 UTC 
Hmm, is it "fixed" by displaying that big red text? I would really much prefer that each component be able to set a default category and new bugs to go into that automatically without having to ask the filer. Categorizing and filing bugs can really only be done properly by the triage team or the developers.
Comment 6 André Klapper 2013-02-22 08:18:58 UTC 
4.2 says "You must select a Component for this bug." In red. :)

No plans to implement this in GNOME Bugzilla => request should be filed upstream in bugzilla.mozilla.org.
Comment 7 Olav Vitters 2013-02-22 13:09:11 UTC 
Intention is 4.4 btw, not 4.2. Did not notice a default component, but also did not check.
Comment 8 André Klapper 2015-01-02 17:31:58 UTC 
Sounds like a dup of bug 508008

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 508008 ***