Fix for bug 75482: adding the capability to deactivate a group without deleting it (prevent new bugs from being placed into that group, but don't remove the group restriction from bugs already in it).

Patch by Myk Melez <myk@mozilla.org>
r= justdave@syndicomm.com

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/globals.pl b/globals.pl
index 81aa80e4e..e81363673 100644
--- a/globals.pl
+++ b/globals.pl
@@ -969,6 +969,17 @@ sub GroupExists {
     return $count;
 }
 
+# Determines whether or not a group is active by checking 
+# the "isactive" column for the group in the "groups" table.
+# Note: This function selects groups by bit rather than by name.
+sub GroupIsActive {
+    my ($groupbit) = (@_);
+    ConnectToDatabase();
+    SendSQL("select isactive from groups where bit=$groupbit");
+    my $isactive = FetchOneColumn();
+    return $isactive;
+}
+
 # Determines if the given bug_status string represents an "Opened" bug.  This
 # routine ought to be paramaterizable somehow, as people tend to introduce
 # new states into Bugzilla.