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Bug 363372

Summary:	exclude certain attributes in initializeSubTaskData
Product:	z_Archived	Reporter:	Thomas Ehrnhoefer <thomas.ehrnhoefer>
Component:	Mylyn	Assignee:	Mylyn Inbox <mylyn-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED MOVED	QA Contact:	Frank Becker <eclipse>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	robert.elves, wrobel
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Whiteboard:

Description Thomas Ehrnhoefer

2011-11-09 14:32:49 EST

Creating a subtask in Bugzilla seems to try to copy all attributes over.
I would think thought that quite often copying doesn't make sense. And while with many attributes, especially custom attributes, that might vary on the user, I find it more of a problem to copy an attribute that's wrong in the subtask, than not copying an attribute that would be right in the subtask.

I would propose to exclude a number of stock attributes from copying (e.g. due date, svereity, priority, keywords, maybe CCs), as well as not copying custom attributes at all.

But I guess many people think different, so I am happy to be convinced otherwise :)

Comment 1 Steffen Pingel

2011-11-23 05:51:28 EST

*** Bug 364564 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Thomas Ehrnhoefer

2011-11-23 10:02:09 EST

bug 364564 raises a good point. I would consider copying assignee as wrong as well. Bugzilla and Mylyn is about team work, so we shouldn't just assume that somebody does all the work :)

Comment 3 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