[Tracker-discuss] [issue401] Fold history in the issue pages

[Ezio Melotti]

Ezio Melotti <ezio.melotti at gmail.com> added the comment:

IMHO you can already see most of the interesting things already.  By the time you reach the history you already saw the nosy list, the attachments, the messages, each with an author and a date.  The things that are left are changes in the nosy list (but I don't find these too interesting usually), changes in the file list (sometimes it's useful to figure out which one is "the attached patch" when there are several patches attached), and some changes in the other fields (and usually what matters is the current value, not who changed the value and when).
So at least for me is not so useful.
That said, if you can't really find the information you want elsewhere (or not as easily), it's possible to add a keyboard shortcut, remember if you prefer it folded or not, show just the last few entries (if those are the ones you find interesting), or even revert the change.
In some issue 'up' is not enough, and even pgup needs to be hit a few times if the history is long enough (see e.g. http://bugs.python.org/issue8898 or http://bugs.python.org/issue2636 ).  The folding can also be enabled selectively, depending on the number of messages/entries or something else.

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