I want to activate more rules (about 180) within a custom quality profile.
I know about the “Bulk change” button, but as far as I can see, this button only offers the possibility to activate the rules with the default severity, I would like to activate them all with the severity ‘info’ and I don’t have such an option.
Within SQ web api - api/qualityprofiles/activate_rules the option to set the targetSeverity parameter is there, so I guess I should be able to do this from the UI as well, right?
I think the last time this was asked for was 12 years ago
I don’t think it’s in the cards to expose this in the UI:
As noted in this announcement, some big changes are coming to SonarQube, specifically around issue type and severity. I’m not sure severity will even remain something that is configurable outside of the rule definition.
We really discourage the bulk activating of rules for “informational” purposes – while it can be well-intentioned (let’s make sure developers can see everything), it often serves as noise that actually discourages developers from paying attention to the issues that are raised (and that are actually important).
However, if you really want to, you can use the Web API.
