launchpad should have an option to clone a ticket, like bugzilla has

[Fernando Miguel]

Some times, we need to take most of the data from a ticket to create a new one.
launchpad should have an option to clone a ticket, like bugzilla has.

[Eleanor Berger (intellectronica)]

If at all, this is a Malone bug, not Launchpad.

[Eleanor Berger (intellectronica)]

What would this be used for? I find it hard to believe that cloning bugs is a very useful feature. Bear in mind that the most important aspect of cloning, filing the same bug on several targets, is already handled quite elegantly by Launchpad.

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

I often clone bug reports in Gnome Bugzilla to report several bugs about the same window, where the text I'm duplicating describes (a) what version and OS I'm using and (b) steps to access the window in question. Where I do the equivalent in Launchpad I just copy and paste, though sometimes I forget to copy before clicking the "Report another bug" link, so I have to go Back Copy Forward.

[Graham Binns (gmb)]

Another application for this would be for people who want to clone not
a whole bug but part of a bug. Consider this use case:

1) The foo project has a bug filed against it which is a security bug
and is therefore automatically private
2) The developers of foo realise that the bug is partly in their code
but also partly in an upstream library to which their code links. The
upstream code isn't a security concern, but fixing that bug would help
to fix the security bug in foo.
3) The developers then clone the security bug, remove all the
foo-specific and security-specific information from it and target it
to the upstream project. All the data from the original bug report was
available when they created the new one, so it was simply a case of
excising the bits that didn't apply or were need-to-know.