823623 - Make 'remember previous state' feature show what text will be restored, not what it will be replacing

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Release Engineering :: General, defect)

Description

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

1) Go to: https://treestatus.mozilla.org/
2) Tick mozilla-central, enter the message "temporary closure message foo", choose CLOSED, tick "remember previous state".
3) Press submit query.

Expected:
Row added to the previous states list, that says something more like:
At $time $user saved mozilla-central's state of $previous-status $previous-message

Actual:
Row added to the previous states list, that says:
At $time $user changed mozilla-central to CLOSED temporary closure message foo

Comment 1

[Dustin J. Mitchell [:dustin] (he/him)]

This is still the case with the RelengAPI version:

> At 2015-11-13T16:56:11+00:00 UTC, dmitchell changed tree birch to CLOSED with reason "blah blah"

Sadly, the information currently isn't even available via the REST API, so this will require both Python and AngularJS changes.

Comment 2

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

Mass-closing old bugs I filed that have not had recent activity/no longer affect me.