94655 - Visual indication of changes for saved queries

Status: NEW

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

Description

[xyzzy]

For any queries the user saves, especially those in the footer, it would be nice
to know if the query has changed since it was last queried.

This could be done in a number of ways:

1) Visual flag denoting change (bolded, append graphic, etc.)
2) Include a count of the changes (number of bugs which are different) to query
3) Append a link to a buglist of all the bugs that have changed.
4) "Tooltip" like message on hover

These can be combined to some extent... my conception:

Preset Queries: My bugs -- <b>10</b> (<a href="change query">+2</a>)

People are likely to disagree as to what constitutes a "change" so that part
should probably be a preference.  Suspect that this is not easy, and hope that
this doesn't tax the db too much.

Comment 1

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

What are you crazy? =)

Unless I've missed something to determine what's changed I think you'd need to
store bug lists with each stored query.

Then you'd need to either update every stored query every time you changed a
bug, or update them daily (which would be a little more feasible).

Comment 2

[xyzzy]

Matthew,

Yeah, I'm a little crazy, but I didn't quite mean for this to be a continual
process.  I think that stored buglists could be a way around this.  Just filed
bug 95722 as my conception of how this could work.  In this situation, it would
just mean checking a *fixed* set of bug numbers against a given timestamp to see
if their timestamp was newer.

So, if you substitute the "fixed buglist" for "query" in my description of this,
it would be much more feasible.

Comment 3

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Reassigning all of my "future" targetted bugs to indicate that I'm not presently
working on them, and someone else could feel free to work on them.

Comment 4

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Reassigning all of my "future" targetted bugs to indicate that I'm not presently
working on them, and someone else could feel free to work on them. (sorry for
the spam if you got this twice, it didn't take right the first time)