68482 - Directory of comments would be useful when there are more than 4 comments/bug

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 71840

(Bugzilla :: Query/Bug List, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Kurt Sussman]

Some bugs end up with 15 or 20 (or more) comments listed. Scrolling through the
list can be tedious when there are a lot of comments. It would be nice to have a
'directory' of comments, each a link to an anchor. This would make it easy to
find the newest comment, or the last comment by the developer in charge of the
component, etc.

Comment 1

[Kurt Sussman]

Attachment: CVS diff of change to globals.pl from bugzilla 2.10

Comment 2

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Can you re-run your diff as a "diff -u"?  That way it will pull in the context 
around it, and will make getting this into the current code base a hell of lot 
easier, since your patch is against an older version.

Comment 3

[Kurt Sussman]

Attachment: a real patch this time, for 2.10

Comment 4

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

->New (old by now?) product Bugzilla 

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Comments have now acquired hyperlink anchors, so you can go directly to a
comment. [e-mail] - does this address your concerns?

Gerv

Comment 6

[Kurt Sussman]

Yes, this is nicer than the patch I provided. Thanks.

Comment 7

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

bug 71840 still doesn't provide a directory to the comments though, which is
what this bug is asking for.  Granted, the patch here needs to be completely
redone now, based on the work in bug 71840 (should just be a matter of making an
index now).

Maybe we should just have it dynamically generate one or two links based on the
number of new comments in the last x time period and put "jump to comments
within the last 24 hours" or "last week" or "last hour" depending on how many
there's been in that amount of time.

Comment 8

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

I don't think we need a directory of comments any more; the only useful link of
this sort would be "jump to the first comment I haven't read", and doing that
would involve a lot of back-end data storage of who viewed what when.

Gerv

Comment 9

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

We are currently trying to wrap up Bugzilla 2.16.  We are now close enough to
release time that anything that wasn't already ranked at P1 isn't going to make
the cut.  Thus this is being retargetted at 2.18.  If you strongly disagree with
this retargetting, please comment, however, be aware that we only have about 2
weeks left to review and test anything at this point, and we intend to devote
this time to the remaining bugs that were designated as release blockers.

Comment 10

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

I agree - we don't need a directory now that comments have numbers.

Marking dupe of 71840, I guess.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 71840 ***

Comment 11

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

clearing milestones on DUPLICATE/WONTFIX/WORKSFORME/INVALID bugs (so they'll
show up as needing triage if they get reopened)

Comment 12

[Matt Perry]

Verified dupe