> --- On Wed, 27/5/09, Gianluca Sforna <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > From: Gianluca Sforna <[email protected]>
> > Subject: Re: [mantisbt-help] Possible bug note
> ordering bug.
> > To: [email protected],
> "Help with Mantis" <[email protected]>
> > Date: Wednesday, 27 May, 2009, 4:08 PM
> > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Jon
> > Hardcastle <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi, I am playing with the number of bug notes
> emailed
> > and the order in which they appear. I have found the
> > following
> > >
> > > $g_default_bugnote_order
> =
> > 'DESC';
> > > $g_default_email_bugnote_limit =
> 2;
> > >
> > > BUT the sort order does NOT apply to emails. I
> can not
> > seem to change the order in which bugs appear in
> emails. Is
> > this a bug? I really want to limit the number of
> notes
> > emailed and have the new ones at the top.
> >
> > Yes, it is a (known) bug, you should find it in the
> > tracker.
>
Whoops! I raised it again! I am actually digging alittle
deeper to see if i can find the cause - any pointers on
getting debug output out of mantis? I normally rely on
scattering some form of print statement in the code to see
what values are held in variables.
>
> >
> > >
> > > Secondly these changes - although default no not
> seem
> > to override an existing users settings even if that
> user has
> > never changed them. Is only applied to new users/users
> that
> > reset prefs. Is this desirable?
> >
> > I'm not sure if that is desirable, but right now we
> can't
> > distinguish
> > between a preference that was never set and one that
> the
> > user likes to
> > keep the same as the default.
> >
>
This is as maybe, but if you change other default values -
if the user has not strayed away from the default their
experience IS updated in accordance with the (new) default.
Should this not be the case here also?
>
> >
> >
> > --
> > Gianluca Sforna
> >
> > http://morefedora.blogspot.com
> > http://www.linkedin.com/in/gianlucasforna
> >
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