Package: bugs.debian.org tl;dr: Please display the whole designated "summary" message, at the top of the page, as if it were the first message in the conversation. (And then again, in its proper place in the chronological order.)
It would be nice if there was a way to control (and amend) what shows up at the start of a bug. There's the existing "summary" feature is very limited: it can only display a single, unformatted, paragraph. Other bug trackers typically have a way to edit the main or first part of the discussion. I think we don't want that. But, we could designate a particular message to show out of chronological order, at the start of the web page. That's what I thought the "summary" feature would do before I tried it and then (when it didn't do what I wanted) read the documentation :-). So ideally the feature I'm asking for here would be called "summary". One option would be to simply change the current meaning of "summary" and "outlook" to always display those messages first (and presumably then again in their proper place in the discussion). That's probably better than some kind of transition where we have three our four such features with different behaviours. Ian. -- Ian Jackson <[email protected]> These opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.
