2011/9/20 Lukas Fleischer <[email protected]>: > On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 11:26:35AM +0200, nem wrote: >> On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 12:23:54 +0200 Lukas Fleischer >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I kind of like the idea of adding a comment field. I wondered why some >> > package has been flagged out-of-date a couple of times and I think >> > having an additional comment might make things easier. -1 to making it >> > mandatory, though. Martti already gave a reason. >> > >> > Anyway, could you please file a feature request? >> >> >> i'm not sure what you have in mind by 'additional comment' - but if >> someone _wants_ to make a comment, he probably will anyway in the >> normal comments. another commentfield just for OOD would be redundant, >> or am i missing your point? > > A separate comment box on a separate "flag package out-of-date" page > (similar to what archweb does) to > > * Allow for sending that comment alongside the notification mail. > > * Allow for linking the comment to the out-of-date flag (allows TU to > quickly check for a reason without having to read all the comments). > > * Show some extra information about what "out-of-date" means. >
Lukas, I might be wrong, but this is sort of how flagging out-of-date works in official repos, right? It sounds good. Better than being mandatory to add a comment in the comments list after flagging ood - which I disagree.
