Copying assignment + changing submission directory causes submission directory to be renamed!

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Yesterday, I copied my "Battleship code review" assignment and renamed the new copy "Scavenger Hunt code review". I changed the submission directory from [efg]/csc216/f10/battleship to [efg]/csc216/f10/scavenger_hunt. To my surprise, this RENAMED the battleship directory to scavenger_hunt, with the consequence that all the submissions went in the same directory with submissions from the other assignment!

I have resolved the problem by moving the files to the correct directories, but the bug remains: When an assignment is copied and the submission directory path is edited, it should result in a NEW path being associated with the copied assignment, and should NOT rename the directory, which has the effect of making two assignments share a submission directory. If the directory name is changed in a situation not pursuant to copying an assignment, it would be reasonable to ASK the user whether the name of the existing submission directory should be changed, or a new directory created.

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This bug is still extant! I encountered it a minute ago. Fortunately, I knew to check for it. Another instructor wouldn't.

It needs to be fixed right away.

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Mauricio and I checked this morning, and found that this bug no longer existed.

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But alas, the bug surfaced again! It occurred when I created the Project 1 assignment for this year's CSC/ECE 517 by copying last year's Project 1. I specified a submission directory csc517/f11/backchannel, which I did by editing the submission-directory field. What happened was that the f10/backchannel directory got renamed to f11/backchannel.

This may be a regression, but it needs to be fixed.

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It happened again! When Vaibhav created Jennifer Kidd's TLED 301 assignment for Spring 2012a, the Fall 2011a files ended up in the Spring 2011a directory. (I just moved them out of it to avoid the consequences.) This needs to be fixed! Otherwise, any instructor copying an assignment will find that the current semester's submissions get mixed up with the previous semester's!

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It happened yet again to the UCF instructor Jessica! I fixed the directory structure this morning.

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We think this bug has been removed, but we could sure use a test verifying that it has not resurfaced!