Excerpts from rafael ff1's message of 2011-09-21 00:07:47 +0200: > 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 package has been flagged out-of-date a couple of times and I think 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 A separate comment box on a separate "flag package out-of-date" page 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 * Allow for linking the comment to the out-of-date flag (allows TU to 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 * Show some extra information about what "out-of-date" means.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 Lukas, I might be wrong, but this is sort of how flagging out-of-date 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.
Still this assumes that the person who flags will leave a sensible comment. There's no way to guarantee that this will happen, he could leave it empty or write asdf or something equally helpful. Yes, having a sensible reason sent with the out-of-date mail would be nice, but such a field wont make sure it will help. Currently you get the reason in a second mail if the person who flags out-of-date leaves a comment, big deal. I'm not convinced we are talking about a real problem here, and I don't think the proposed solutions would really improve matters in any significant way.
