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Bug #506018
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Comment 2 for bug 506018

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Karl Fogel (kfogel) wrote on 2010-01-14:

Show patch messages along with bug summary; all other columns still TBD, as there are some data flow issues still to be worked out in the code. Edit (152.7 KiB, image/png)

Bryce, is your mockup at http://www2.bryceharrington.org:8080/X/Reports/patches.html to be considered basically the way you'd want this to work? I.e., is that just a rough idea, or is it actually exactly what you'd like to see?

One thing I'm concerned about is that it's not clear how to handle bugs that have multiple patches attached. Your display is organized by bugtask-per-patch, that is, it shows every bugtask for each bug that has a patch attachment. If a bug had 2 patch attachments, would it display 2 * num_bugtasks lines? You can see how this could get out of hand quickly :-).

I'll attach a screenshot that shows what's running in the branch right now. Note it displays the patch attachment's message as well as the bug summary. Of course, that makes things rather wide; a better solution might be to put the patch message and/or filenmae as a tooltip-style text popup for when one hovers over something that identifies the patch. But currently, there isn't really anything that identifies the patch itself, except the patch age column.

Anyway, screenshot attached. I'll next develop a rough mockup for an interface that is organized by patch, shows all bugtasks, but does not result in the horrible multiplying-lines problem. We should discuss by phone or IRC as soon as we can, though.