Re: [mantisbt-dev] Assign bug + events

[David H. <hic...@op...>]

On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 11:53 +0200, smig1o Gazeta.pl wrote:
> Seems I'll be forced to modify bug_update function to handle that. I
> see no other solution atm.

Please consider filing a bug report on the MantisBT bug tracker if one
doesn't already exist. We may need to consider adding another hook that
plugins can use before/after a bug is reassigned.

However I'm of the opinion that we really should be passing all
modifications to a bug through the same process. In other words, we
create an interface which accepts a list of proposed changes to a bug.
This interface would then be responsible for determining whether the
changes can succeed. The reason for bundling changes to different fields
together when performing validation is to allow for complex rules about
the state of issue metadata. For instance you could make a rule that
states the priority of an issue cannot be set above HIGH if the severity
is below MAJOR.

Thus we'd only need two hooks... one prior to updating a bug and one
after a bug has been updated. The alternative (when not bundling updates
together through the same interface) is a mess of dozens of hooks
before/after a whole number of events like: bug_assign, bug_resolve,
bug_close, etc.

Regards,

David