366843 - When changing a bug, show the user what he just changed

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 115040

(Bugzilla :: Creating/Changing Bugs, enhancement)

Description

[Rob Siklos [:robzilla]]

Bugzilla can sometimes be a little intimidating to new or non-tech users (e.g. a documentation team), especially if they have to make changes to bugs, and especially if there are a lot of custom fields.

Right now in Bugzilla, when you make changes to a bug, the resulting page only shows you who did (and didn't) get bugmail.  We've found that if the resulting page also shows the user what he just changed (i.e. the latest snippet from the activity log), it makes the user much more confident in making changes, since it confirms that they made the changes that they really wanted to make (and only those changes).

I think I have some code lying around somewhere that does this, but I don't remember how big the code change is, and I think it's based on 2.18.  Let me know if I should go look for it.

Comment 1

[Frédéric Buclin]

I'm pretty sure this is a dupe. Maybe filed by timeless.

Comment 2

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

This will also be easier once we use Bugzilla::Object, since Bugzilla::Object->update returns a hash of what changed.

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

dupe of bug 115040?

Comment 4

[Frédéric Buclin]

Yes

Comment 5

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

No, not a dup. This one's about show_bug, the other one's about process_bug.

Comment 6

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

Oh, nevermind, I thought this was some other bug.