Highlight fixes in bug report discussion (feature request)

Bug #186197 reported by Hamish Downer
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Launchpad itself
In Progress
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

This is a feature request for the bug reporting interface (I believe filing a bug is the correct way to do this, sorry if not).

It would be nice if there was a way to highlight fixes/patches/workarounds in bug discussions. Coming back to a bug discussion after a while to look for a fix that works for some people can be painful reading through all the other comments to try and find the one with the fix.

If comments with with fixes/patches/workarounds could be highlighted they would be much easier to spot. One way to highlight would be to make the background colour yellow.

There is then the issue of how to choose which comments are a fix/patch/workaround. Some options include

1. when a user enters a comment, they could tick a box if they think the comment is a fix/patch/workaround.
2. it could be set by the assignee (or maybe the original reporter).
3. any comment containing "fix" "patch" or "workaround" could be highlighted.

1 seems the best of these options to me. All fixes etc would be highlighted, including some bad ones, but they would still be easy to find.

2 is more selective, but often won't happen.

3 is probably going to include lots of comments that aren't actually fixes etc.

Tags: lp-bugs
Revision history for this message
Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote :

See also bug 1734 (which would achieve most of the same effect but in the opposite way), bug 54652, and bug 178245.

Revision history for this message
Curtis Hovey (sinzui) wrote :

I think this is in progress. comments get a patch icon when a patch was attached with them.

Changed in malone:
importance: Undecided → Low
milestone: none → 10.01
status: New → In Progress
Deryck Hodge (deryck)
Changed in malone:
milestone: 10.01 → none
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