Re: [mantisbt-dev] Proposed Fix for #9754

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I have no experience programming / debugging PHP and Webapplications.
Seems that I underestimate the effort to fix the bug.

I also forgot the people who already upgraded to 1.1.4 and going back might not be an option.

Under these circumstances the workaround version 1.1.5 should be the right decision.

Maybe 1.1.6 with additional javascript validation will follow soon?
I want to introduce MantisBT for a new project with users that never worked with MantisBT before.
I don't want to start discussing with the new users  (which will certainly forget to fill in the required fields) whether I choosed the wrong system which is not user friendly.

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Betreff: Re: [mantisbt-dev] Proposed Fix for #9754
Gesendet: Mi, 12. Nov 2008
Von: Victor Boctor<vb...@gm...>

> The aim is to have people always upgrade to latest dot build without
> worrying about things breaking.  People should not spend time trying
> to figure out which version to pick.  The problem we are having now is
> that people upgraded, got issues that are more blocking than the
> original fixes, and are asking for supporting to get their
> installations going again.  Hence, the urgency.
> 
> I agree with John's suggestion of handling the problem for 1.1.5 and
> also agree with the longer term suggestion for re-generating the form.
>  Actually, re-generating the form may not be too hard since we have
> similar logic to handle bug cloning.
> 
> We can also add javascript client validation to detect empty mandatory
> fields, this will improve the experience in general (i.e. before /
> after implementing the form re-generation).
> 
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 8:39 AM, Roland Becker <ro...@at...> wrote:
> > I think it's better to go on trying to fix the real problem. (and
> hopefully not too much hair pulling)
> > Don't waste your time to implement workarounds.
> >
> > Idea:
> > For those who see no great problem with security issues, maybe 1.1.1 is
> the right version to use
> > For those who see no great problem with required fields, maybe 1.1.2 is
> the right version to use (or is this version too bad?)
> >
> > All others like me: Hope and wait for a clean solution soon in 1.1.5
> >
> > Just my 2 Cents
> >
> > Roland Becker
> >
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> > Betreff: [mantisbt-dev] Proposed Fix for #9754
> > Gesendet: Mi, 12. Nov 2008
> > Von: John Reese<jr...@le...>
> >
> >> http://www.mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=9754
> >>
> >> After all my investigation, hair pulling, and anger with IE6/7, I want
> >> to propose the following changes to fix the problem with 9754.  However,
> >> the problem is that fixing 9754 will, by merit of the fix, will break
> >> the old bug 9323 (but only for IE6/IE7).
> >>
> >> http://www.mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=9323
> >>
> >> However, given the severity of 9754, and the somewhat lesser severity of
> >> 9323 (you can still use Mantis just fine as long as you make sure you
> >> always fill in required fields), I think this is at least a worthwhile
> >> trade off until we can generate ' *real* solution to the problem, such
> >> as regenerating the form when there are problems, rather than relying on
> >> the back button.
> >>
> >> Anyways, the fix I have in mind is to revert the IE-specifc cache
> >> headers in core.php, so that IE won't ever use a stale page.  It will
> >> solve 9754, but since IE doesn't always store form contents like Firefox
> >> and Opera do, it will lose form contents when pressing the back button.
> >>
> >> I've been trying to find a better solution than this, but I've come up
> >> short.  Thoughts?
> >>
> >> --
> >> John Reese
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> >>
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