On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 03:51:51PM -0400, Sergey Lipnevich wrote: > While I don't have any input on ticket dependencies, I'd like to offer > this bit about user interface. My experience using Bugzilla and even > Trac is that when I want to link one ticket to another (in Trac I can > just do that in the discussion area for the absence of a better way), > it's a very inconvenient process. I have to open another tab in the > browser, find the related ticket's number, then go back to the > original tab (and I may have 5-15 already open if I'm in the middle of > something). To facilitate it, Roundup for example presents a list of > all tickets to choose from. However, I don't think it's a "usable" UI > decision because even small projects may have hundreds and thousands > of tickets, with a large percentage of those open. A better UI would > somehow limit choices in such a list to a manageable number, say 10-20 > most suitable tickets. A "short list" may be constrained by a search > word (harder to do nicely without AJAX stuff) or by similarity. For > example, picking 10 tickets that have the same words as this ticket in > their summary would be a first approximation. So, if I want to find a > parent ticket for something called "Workflow incorrectly closes > tickets," Trac behind the scenes would do a query for these words, > find tickets that have words "workflow" or "close" in their summary, > and present ten most suitable ones. > I don't know if this is an original idea or it's implemented somewhere > already, but I think it would work with Trac's "minimalistic but > insanely convenient" philosophy (if I may characterize it like that). > Thank you,
This is actually already implemented in WorkFlow [1]. It was primarily designed for detecting duplicate tickets, but the code could easily do double duty. That being said however, it is quite a difficulty problem to solve, as its rare that users actually enter tickets with similarities, even if the tickets are for the same issue. The current code uses words common between tickets, weighted by their length, to detect similarity. [1] http://projects.edgewall.com/trac/changeset/3111#file21 -- Evolution: Taking care of those too stupid to take care of themselves. _______________________________________________ Trac-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.edgewall.com/mailman/listinfo/trac-dev
