https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10961
Okay, I logged a bug for this with your caveats in there and assign
it to myself. I think I'd like to wait for more feedback on this
before implementing this tweak. Perhaps wait for users to ramp up on
sharing scenarios and/or using the addressing fields to attach who-
ness to items.
The prevalence of 'cr/ed me' your experience may be a symptom of an
unclear Who column design and perhaps generally making the Who column
more useful to people will end up being a better way to address this
problem.
Does that sound reasonable?
Mimi
On Oct 4, 2007, at 12:47 PM, Philippe Bossut wrote:
Hi Mimi,
Well, that resumes my position fairly well and I'll stand by this
writing :)
It's true about the items that are collaboratively edited. May be
we could do a sort of double check on the whole history of the item
as in: if the item has been created by <me> and consistently on
only edited by <me> then display nothing in the Who column. Not
sure this is an easy to extract info though. Conceptually, it's how
I saw the "blank == <me>" in my head.
Cheers,
- Philippe
Mimi Yin wrote:
Hey Philippe
Could you take a look at this when you have a moment? I didn't log
a bug for this feature b/c I ran into some design issues. Would
like to get your input.
Mimi
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Philippe also had a suggestion for suppressing 'Created by' and
'Edited by' in the Who column for non-message items, even if
those items are shared. This would in effect, leave the column
blank whenever 'you' create or edit a none-message item.
There's been little controversy over suppressing this metadata
for non-shared items. However, the thinking behind showing it for
shared items was that it was useful for people to see what items
they cr/ed versus what items other people cr/ed. However,
Philippe pointed out that:
+ Even when collections are shared, they are often shared for the
sake of sharing with yourself, not with others; OR they are
shared with others who don't really edit the items very much. So
mostly, all the items are cr/ed by 'me'.
+ For collections that are shared with and actively edited by
others, users can still infer that they cr/ed an item by the lack
of metadata in the Who column. In other words, blank Who column =
cr/ed by 'me'.
I was about to log this bug and describe the above behavior.
However, I realized that there is the funny case where you have a
shared item that was last edited by someone else and then you
come along and edit it and the Who column goes blank. Is that too
weird?
Mimi
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