69784 - Personal Status Whiteboard

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Bugzilla :: Bugzilla-General, enhancement, P4)

Description

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

There should be a personal status whiteboard for 3.0 that allows you to enter 
in whiteboard information for yourself as a bugzilla user. You could search for 
it just like other things. You would be able to put this on any bug. Other 
people wouldn't see this.

ie:
Personal Whiteboard: lame, dumb
Personal Whiteboard: Its netdemon's birthday
Personal Whiteboard: fixit

Comment 1

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

How far do you want to take this?  The logical next step is group whiteboards,
and how many do we want to create?

For UI purposes it would need nice if u could "add" whiteboards.

Comment 2

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

Hixie, I think you already have this sort of thing in the BZ3 design, didn't
you?

Comment 3

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

that kind of thing (including group whiteboards) is already in the design, yeah.
hell, you could even have personal drop downs and group cc lists and ... ;-)

Comment 4

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

Taking QA.

Comment 5

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

The Bugzilla 3 component is going away.  We're going to depend on the Milestones 
for this.  At the time this component was created, we didn't have milestones for 
Bugzilla.

Comment 6

[Jesse Ruderman]

See also bug 167017, personal/group keywords.

Comment 7

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

Bailing on Bugzilla 3.0 due to too many other commitments.

Comment 8

[Jesse Ruderman]

Vlad's BugWrangler extension adds this feature to Firefox:
http://www.vlad1.com/~vladimir/blog/archives/2004/07/28/39/

Comment 9

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to comment #8)
> Vlad's BugWrangler extension adds this feature to Firefox:
> http://www.vlad1.com/~vladimir/blog/archives/2004/07/28/39/

Vlad, can BugWrangler work on newer versions of FF, eg. DP?  (right now, it doesn't)

Comment 10

[Vladimir Vukicevic [:vlad] [:vladv] (needinfo me, slow to respond)]

It can't (and probably won't for a while) -- I tabled it because I couldn't get
the functionality that I really wanted using RDF.  Now that mozStorage is more
stable and will be shipped as an extension at some point, bugwrangler might be
reborn with a mozStorage dependancy for data storage.

Comment 11

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

This isn't actually going to be implemented in Bugzilla 3.0.

Comment 12

[:aceman]

I think this is basically the same I filed as bug 694555.

Comment 15

[Simon Green]

Attachment: bug69784-v1.patch

Comment 16

[:glob ✱]

imho this should be configurable per site.

Comment 17

[Simon Green]

(In reply to Byron Jones ‹:glob› from comment #16)
> imho this should be configurable per site.

I think it should be a setting rather than in params.json, so individual users can turn it on or off, while allow administrators to turn it on or off globally if they wish. This differs from the status whiteboard, which is in params.json.

Do you agree?

Comment 18

[Frédéric Buclin]

(In reply to Simon Green from comment #17)
> I think it should be a setting rather than in params.json, so individual
> users can turn it on or off

It seems a bit weird to have a bug field hidden on a per-user basis. We never did that before, and I don't see the point to do that. It's like asking to not see bug aliases or the bug severity on a per-user basis. This would be totally confusing.

Comment 19

[Simon Green]

(In reply to Frédéric Buclin from comment #18)
> It seems a bit weird to have a bug field hidden on a per-user basis. We
> never did that before, and I don't see the point to do that. It's like
> asking to not see bug aliases or the bug severity on a per-user basis. This
> would be totally confusing.

The difference between this field and alias and severity is that this is a field that is personal to the user (much like tags are). To that extent, you could argue that we don't have a per-user show tags option, so we shouldn't have one for personal whiteboard.

OTOH, from a UI perspective, if only a few people want to use this feature, then why should we inflict another field on the majority of users that don't want this. Likewise, if this is on by default (which will be the default option), then a user can choose to remove seeing this field from the screen.

Personally, I'm not fussed if it goes in the params file or settings, I just want a consensus on what is the best option in this case. My vote is for the settings for the reasons stated in the above paragraph.

Comment 20

[:glob ✱]

(In reply to Simon Green from comment #17)
> I think it should be a setting rather than in params.json, so individual
> users can turn it on or off, while allow administrators to turn it on or off
> globally if they wish. This differs from the status whiteboard, which is in
> params.json.
> 
> Do you agree?

no, i think it should be controlled by the admin only, not users.

after some thought i think this should be a bugzilla extension and not part of the core.
it's an unusual request a decade old, with little interest until you wrote the patch.

this gives the flexibility for sites that want to carry the overhead to install it, and for others that don't want this feature to not worry about it.

> you could argue that we don't have a per-user show tags option, so we shouldn't have one for personal whiteboard.

that we don't have the ability to disable bug tagging is bug 1116994.

Comment 21

[Simon Green]

Attachment: bug69784-v1.patch

Comment 22

[Simon Green]

(In reply to Byron Jones ‹:glob› from comment #20)
> no, i think it should be controlled by the admin only, not users.

Okay, I have added a new patch that includes a param for enabling it at the admin level.
 
> after some thought i think this should be a bugzilla extension and not part
> of the core.
> it's an unusual request a decade old, with little interest until you wrote
> the patch.
 
> this gives the flexibility for sites that want to carry the overhead to
> install it, and for others that don't want this feature to not worry about
> it.

I disagree. There is practically no overhead if this feature is not used (just an if statement here and there, and a few bytes for the table space). Having this as an extension would require a lot of work.

I think these field is really useful, I know I would have used it a lot when I was a Bugzilla developer at Red Hat, just to write random notes, instead of using a notepad. Obviously, YMMV.

In any case, if Dylan thinks it should be an extension, I'm sure he'll give it a big r-

Comment 23

[Dylan Hardison [:dylan] (he/him)]

Comment on attachment 8639758 [details] [diff] [review]
bug69784-v1.patch

Review of attachment 8639758 [details] [diff] [review]:
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r- I don't think this belongs in Bugzilla.