Comment 3 for bug 6072

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Björn Tillenius (bjornt) wrote : Re: [Bug 6072] bug activity log should not use a table

On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 11:53:22PM -0000, Martin Pool wrote:
> Public bug report changed:
> https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/6072
>
> Comment:
> Some thoughts:
>
> It's a bit strange that there are two chronological views of a bug: the
> regular comments, and the activity log.
>
> The activity log could instead be conceived as showing more detail about
> the history of the bug: when activated, it would insert additional
> records between the comments on the regular page, showing the
> modifications made to fields. This could be called "show all activity",
> or "show detailed changes".
>
> This would fix this particular bug but also, I think, give a better
> understanding of why the particular field changes were made by showing
> them in the context of the discussion.

The plan is to move the activity log to the main bug page, and show the
changes together with the comments. This is specified in
https://wiki.launchpad.canonical.com/BugHistory