150196 - Enhancement: reports.cgi should show Bug Summary as part of "Show Links for Bugs"

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Bugzilla :: Reporting/Charting, defect)

Description

[Brian G. Peterson]

This is a requested enhancement.

In the reports.cgi file, instead of just displaying links to bugs, the link 
should also show the summary of the bug, just as it is done in the rest of the 
system (the standard bug view showing dependencies, for example).

The original code in reports.cgi that displays the link is:

foreach my $st (@status) {
   my @l;

   foreach (sort { $a <=> $b } @{$bugs_summary{$who}{$st}}) {
      if ($FORM{'links'}) {
         push @l, "<a href=\"show_bug.cgiid=$_\">$_</a>\n";$_); 
         }
      else {
         push @l, $_;
            }
      }

Replace the line that creates the simple link to the bug number:

     push @l, "<a href=\"show_bug.cgiid=$_\">$_</a>\n";$_); 

with this line:

     push @l, GetBugLink($_, $_);

using the GetBugLink function from globals.pl

Comment 1

[Jouni Heikniemi]

I've considered filing this bug earlier too. The problem I'm thinking about (and
the reason I haven't filed) is that this feature or at least the mentioned
implementation of it will make the page extremely slow and also increase the
HTML size quite a lot. I think I can live with the latter, but the first problem
may get really hard with 1000+ bug report pages.

Comment 2

[Brian G. Peterson]

I don't think that the performance hit is that large.  If this caused a table 
scan on a very large database, that would be a problem, but it seems that the 
table should be indexed by bug id.

We are currently running bugzilla on a linux 233mhz pentium machine, and the 
reports page loads very fast.  We have a couple thousand bugs in the database.

Where I see a performance hit is on custom reports to show dependencies for all 
bugs in a component.  Then, the difference between a simple link to the bug id 
and a GetBugLink procedure call was noticible and significant.

I would suggest that if you were worried about performance, you could add a 
checkbox like the "Links to Bugs" switch that would allow you to choose whether 
you wanted to run the report with the GetBugLink call enabled.  I can look into 
the code for that, if you like.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This page is going away, to be replaced by one which displays totals for each
engineer, with the total being a link to the buglist. So this enhancement
request would no longer apply.

Gerv

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

... and that has happened. So this doesn't apply any more.

Gerv