109692 - Fully customisable index page (channels).

Status: NEW

(Bugzilla :: Bugzilla-General, enhancement)

Description

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

The front page should be set up so the user can choose what panels they want to
appear, and the admins can choose which are defaults.

Ideas for panels:

Links.
Administrator links.
Most recently reported bugs in a set of products/all products (ID+Summary).
Most frequently reported bugs in a set of products/all products (ID+Summary).
Top ten results of a specific query (ID+Summary).
News for a set of products/all products.

Comment 1

[GavinS]

Bug#98123 will provide the the user prefs bit.

Another panel option: recent activity on a set of bugs

Comment 2

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

List of all stored queries.
Voted bugs.

Comment 3

[Matt Jones]

This seems like a good idea to me.

Why limit it to just the index page?  Couldn't users/admins use the same feature
to customize any page with a user-specific panel, or add a panel to the toolbar?
For that matter, couldn't the toolbar *be* one of these panels, and thus be
included at user choice anywhere?  I've always wanted a mini-toolbar to show up
in the header of every bugzilla page (containing just 'My Bugs', New, Query, and
the "Find bug#" search box) so that I don't have to scroll down so much all of
the time.

In bug #142101 Gerv suggested using a 'pull' model for retrieving data for
features that are not part of the core Bugzilla, because it would minimize the
code changes needed to add new features like a new panel on the index page. 
Would channels use a pull model for retrieving data as Gerv suggests in bug
#142101 ?

Comment 4

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

I had considered the option of adding panels to the footer, I didn't get around
to writing that.  I think apart from that channels probably shouldn't go
anywhere else.

The general way we have architected templates is we push we what expect to need
and pull is used for less used stuff.  As such more pulling will probably be
added to templates over time, as there isn't much there yet and people haven't
begun to experiment with templates much yet.

Given channels will likely be many and varied, I expect they will probably
generally pull information.

Comment 5

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Reassigning all of my "future" targetted bugs to indicate that I'm not presently
working on them, and someone else could feel free to work on them.

Comment 6

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Reassigning all of my "future" targetted bugs to indicate that I'm not presently
working on them, and someone else could feel free to work on them. (sorry for
the spam if you got this twice, it didn't take right the first time)