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. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
