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Bug 256104

Summary:	Context attachment should allow to specify a description
Product:	z_Archived	Reporter:	Gabriele Garuglieri <gabriele.garuglieri>
Component:	Mylyn	Assignee:	Project Inbox <mylyn-triaged>
Status:	CLOSED MOVED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P4	Keywords:	helpwanted
Version:	3.6
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:

Description Gabriele Garuglieri

2008-11-21 08:24:08 EST

I think this is is somewhat related to Bug 211467 but given the different behavior of trac respect to bugzilla i'm opening a new bug.

When attaching the context to a task the attachment description is always generated as "mylyn/context/zip" which is pretty useless if you need to attach  more than one context to a task.
The same description is reported in the comment generated for the attachment in the form:
* attachment  mylyn-context.zip added
mylyn/context/zip

What i'm asking s that it is allowed to change the context attachment description to be able to attach multiple contexts to the same task and retrieve them with the associated description.

Referring to Bug 211467 i think that one thing is the attachment description that usually is rather short and is associated to it in the attachment table at the beginning of the bug/ticket and another is the associated comment.
The attachment wizard should allow to enter both and both should be saved possibly into the same ticket comment.

Comment 1 Steffen Pingel

2009-06-15 02:35:21 EDT

The description of an attachment is currently used to detect context attachments. We could consider improving that for Trac, e.g. by using the filename instead of the attachment description but I currently don't see a strong driver for that.

Comment 2 Eclipse Webmaster

2022-11-15 11:45:08 EST

Mylyn has been restructured, and our issue tracking has moved to GitHub [1].

We are closing ~14K Bugzilla issues to give the new team a fresh start. If you feel that this issue is still relevant, please create a new one on GitHub.

[1] https://github.com/orgs/eclipse-mylyn