I agree with all of those points. Thanks for raising them Gary. - Joe
________________________ @jdreimann - Twitter Sent from my phone On 21 Nov 2012, at 11:53, Gary Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > On 20/11/12 12:18, Gary Martin wrote: >> On 20/11/12 11:46, Joachim Dreimann wrote: >>> Thanks for the update Gary - our own Bloodhound instance is now upgraded to >>> 0.2, yay! >>> >>> Olemis has highlighted an issue with the activity feed though, often no >>> events are shown, like on this ticket: >>> https://issues.apache.org/bloodhound/ticket/240 >>> >>> Why is that? >> >> Simple.. we only get open and close events at the moment. This might be >> fixed by showing more of the events with >> >> [timeline] >> ticket_show_details = true >> abbreviated_messages = true >> >> We will still be left with a limit on the time period though. Still we can >> experiment with the site configuration to see if we do want to implement #69 >> or improve further. > > There appear to be a few things that need improving on the activity feeds: > > * Using N days back as a means to limit the number of events to show > appears to be flawed > * The message shown when no events are available is misleading in > implying that there could be a misconfiguration. If we are going to > maintain the above time limit, we need to be far more optimistic. > * All ticket events should be shown (#69) > * Events that have comments should have those comments abbreviated by > default. At some point we will probably want to allow the user to > view more details of an event without having to go to the ticket but > that seems secondary to the problem of showing more detail than > required. > > #69 doesn't appear to cover the last point as I think the > abbreviated_messages setting is ignored by the activity area. > > Cheers, > Gary
