127799 - Ability to see long description to bug listing

Status: NEW

(Bugzilla :: Extension Ideas, enhancement, P4)

Description

[Jim U'Ren]

When listing bugs following a query, bugzilla should (optionallly?) include the 
bug description next to the summary.

Comment 1

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Can you clarify what you mean by "description"?  If it's what I'm thinking you
mean, that would make for a really nasty looking buglist.  (does clicking the
"Long Format" button at the bottom of the buglist accomplish what you want?)

Comment 2

[Jim U'Ren]

Attachment: Sample issue/bug report

The long format provides the information but not in the format I'm looking for.
 
Perhaps this should be addressed as a reporting feature. An issue tracking 
report my team has produced in a non-Bugzilla, home-grown solution is attached 

as a html file.

Comment 3

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

OK, so what you really want is the first comment on the bug (the one identified
as comment #0, which should get hyperlinked here if you view this bug report). 
Probably doable.  Would take up a lot of verticle space on the bug report, but
as it does this in your attached example, that probably doesn't matter.

Comment 4

[Jim U'Ren]

The scenario I have in mind for this report is that I lead a geographically 
disbursed team that needs to work an issue/bug log between quarterly team 
meetings.  We often do not have access to the Net (and therefore Bugzilla) at 
our meetings so we need a summary report of the issue/bug database that we can 
work at the meetings.

Comment 5

[Jim U'Ren]

If you have any suggestions or case studies of how teams have used Bugzilla in 
an on-line and off-line manner, I'd be interested in hearing about it.

Thanks,

Jim U'Ren
Chair of STEP Systems Engineering Team (AP233)

Comment 6

[Andreas Franke (gone)]

Jim, maybe the long-term solution for you is bug 99240 ['Add an editable "long
summary" field (useful for long bugs)'] and have an option to include it in
buglists.

Comment 7

[David Geldreich]

Attachment: Implement description export in CSV and HTML buglist table

Comment 8

[David Geldreich]

(In reply to comment #3)
> OK, so what you really want is the first comment on the bug (the one identified
> as comment #0, which should get hyperlinked here if you view this bug report). 
> Probably doable.  Would take up a lot of verticle space on the bug report, but
> as it does this in your attached example, that probably doesn't matter.

Hi Dave and Jim,

as I needed to export description of a bug. I made a patch to see it in buglist in CSV and HTML format.

I am not sure the best way to split lines :
FILTER html_break
FILTER html_para
FILTER html_line_break
I choose the last one as it keeps the original formatting

I am not sure how the other format (js, rdf, atom, ics) are supposed to work.

Feel free to review it and incorporate it in future bugzilla release.

Best regards

Comment 9

[David Geldreich]

Comment on attachment 242429 [details] [diff] [review]
Implement description export in CSV and HTML buglist table

Hello Joel,

I just made this patch to handle a feature needed by one of my client. If think it would be a good idea to integrate it.

Thanks in advance

Comment 10

[Joel Peshkin]

Comment on attachment 242429 [details] [diff] [review]
Implement description export in CSV and HTML buglist table

This is a nice implementation, but I don't think we really should have the initial comment as a field in reports in the standard Bugzilla.  I do think we need bug 99240 to be completed, but it probably pays to use customfields for that.

Comment 13

[:glob ✱]

this proposal is better suited to being implemented as an extension instead of in bugzilla core.