770539 - Button in history for reverting to a particular revision

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Editing, defect)

Description

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

Instead of having a "delete" button by each revision in page history, let us pick any older version and revert to it. This is more user-friendly and less scary.

Plus, ideally, this would be recorded so that reverts can be reverted so that doorknobs reverting stuff they shouldn't have can be easily corrected. (This does happen, fairly often, sometimes on purpose, frequently by mistake or misunderstanding).

Comment 1

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

NOT a launch priority.

Comment 2

[John Karahalis [:openjck]]

MediaWiki does something very similar. Do you like their approach?

Comment 3

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

Take a look at the history page on the MediaWiki site. This is actually something I like about MindTouch.

Comment 4

[John Karahalis [:openjck]]

Great!

For reference, see the following MediaWiki revision demo:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=MDN/mediawiki_revision_demo&action=history

Comment 5

[James Bennett [:ubernostrum]]

What's needed at this point is a bit of UI/templating work; there's a template for showing a confirmation page, to let the user know what they're reverting to, and then once that's done we'll need the document history template to link to the revert view for each revision.

Comment 6

[John Karahalis [:openjck]]

Bumped points down for this and opened bug 784754 for the necessary front-end work.

Comment 7

[John Karahalis [:openjck]]

Marked this as p=0 just because back-end work is done. Bug 784754 (also in the sprint) has 2 points for completing the front-end work.

Sort of a hack. What I really should have done is split this up from the start and added a tracking bug for the feature at large. That's what I plan to do in the future at least.

Comment 8

[David Walsh :davidwalsh]

What exiting view is in place for this?  Once I know that, I can get started.

Comment 9

[John Karahalis [:openjck]]

James: Any idea on comment 8?