152361 - can't continue walking a dependency tree

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Bugzilla :: User Interface, enhancement)

Description

[timeless]

suppose you're looking at bug 151413's dependency tree and you decide you want 
to see the dependency tree for a bug listed on that page.

you can't just click a bug number. instead you click it and then click a link 
for a new tree.

suggestion: make the number a link to the dependency tree for the bug and the 
text a link to the bug.

any alternative would work, just save me the pain of loading the actual bug.

Comment 1

[Jouni Heikniemi]

Making the numbers and descriptions link to different places would make the UI
quite confusing, but I think adding a "(tree)" or something similar would be
acceptable. The only problem is that the output tends to get messy even then... Hmm.

Comment 2

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

The User Interface component now belongs to Gerv.  Reassigning all UNCONFIRMED
and NEW (but not ASSIGNED) bugs currently owned by Myk (the previous component
owner) to Gerv.

Comment 3

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Reassigning back to Myk.  That stuff about Gerv taking over the User Interface
component turned out to be short-lived.  Please pardon our confusion, and I'm
very sorry about the spam.

Comment 4

[Stewart Gordon]

See also (almost dupe, but not quite) bug 104341.

Comment 5

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

*** Bug 104341 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

Why not just increase the depth of the tree?

Comment 7

[timeless]

because dependency tree is a combination of two trees, not a complete graph.

Look at
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=151413
and then look at
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=99203

you can't see things which don't go in the direction matching the direction you
took to reach a dependency.

Comment 8

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

Ah, right.  In that case a link like Jouni suggests in comment 1 makes sense.

Comment 9

[Frédéric Buclin]

Attachment: patch, v1

add a (view as tree) link for each bug.

Comment 10

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

"(view as tree)" takes up a lot of space and is distracting.  "(tree)" as Jouni
suggested, would be better but would still have issues, as Jouni noted.  Perhaps
a small icon would be useful here, since it could be unobtrusive.

Comment 11

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

Comment on attachment 194254 [details] [diff] [review]
patch, v1

Per previous discussion, this needs to be unobtrusive since it's likely to be
infrequently used.  It should be an icon (or we should come up with a better
way to let users browser this graph).

Comment 12

[Frédéric Buclin]

I won't have time to play with it before the 2.22 freeze

Comment 13

[Frédéric Buclin]

batosti is working on the dependency tree in bug 251656. Reassigning this bug to him.

Comment 14

[André Batosti]

Attachment: tree.png

a tree icon for UI

Comment 15

[André Batosti]

Attachment: batosti_v2

Comment 16

[Frédéric Buclin]

Checking in skins/standard/dependency-tree.css;
/cvsroot/mozilla/webtools/bugzilla/skins/standard/dependency-tree.css,v  <--  dependency-tree.css
new revision: 1.2; previous revision: 1.1
done
RCS file: /cvsroot/mozilla/webtools/bugzilla/skins/standard/dependency-tree/tree.png,v
done
Checking in skins/standard/dependency-tree/tree.png;
/cvsroot/mozilla/webtools/bugzilla/skins/standard/dependency-tree/tree.png,v  <--  tree.png
initial revision: 1.1
done
Checking in template/en/default/bug/dependency-tree.html.tmpl;
/cvsroot/mozilla/webtools/bugzilla/template/en/default/bug/dependency-tree.html.tmpl,v  <--  dependency-tree.html.tmpl
new revision: 1.22; previous revision: 1.21
done