confirmation dialog on bug status change discourages bug fixes

[William Grant]

Launchpad now discourages bug fixes from contributors. If I attempt to set a Launchpad bug to 'In Progress', I will get a particularly discouraging violent JavaScript alert() and an equally annoying sound. There is no way to stop this, even though I am a regular contributor.

[Martin Pool (mbp)]

Apparently this keys off whether you ever had a bug assigned to yourself in that product, so you can workaround it by doing that. I don't know if it is enough to momentarily assign it then unassign it.

This was introduced in https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/531963; I did try to point out this would cause annoyance

[William Grant (wgrant)]

The old non-AJAX assignee warning would shut up if one had a task assigned in the product. The new AJAX status change warning cannot be silenced unless one gains bug supervisor privileges.

[Deryck Hodge (deryck)]

Yes, wgrant is right. This change doesn't consult isBugContributorInTarget the way it was supposed to. Given that, and given that I had some reservations about this anyway -- i.e. I think it should act as validation not blocking, we should perhaps consult karma, and also consider which statuses are being toggled -- I want to revert this change before release.

Abel, can you please prepare a branch to revert lp:~intellectronica/launchpad/bug-531963? And also add this bug to the Current Rollout Blockers wiki page?

I will comment on bug 531963 and change the status on the bug. I would like to continue discussions about the usefulness of this change and any implementation questions on the original bug and reserve this bug for tracking the reverted branch.

Thanks to wgrant and mbp for the discussion here and elsewhere on this.

[Ursula Junque (ursinha)]

Fixed in stable r10605 <http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~launchpad-pqm/launchpad/stable/revision/10605>