[tei-council] SF: Allura Tickets 'Priority'.

[Gabriel Bodard]

I can sort of see Martin's point, yes. If at least the default number of 
comments visible were higher than ten (say 30, or 50) that would be a 
lot easier.

On 2013-06-18 16:48, Martin Holmes wrote:
> I'm not sure about this. It is annoying to have to page to the end of
> the ticket, and sometimes I add a comment based on the first page,
> forgetting there's more, but I'm getting used to it. Reading posts in
> reverse order is more confusing, especially if you're new to the ticket
> and it's a long one.
>
> On 13-06-18 03:39 AM, Lou Burnard wrote:
>> This reminds me to ask whether anyone shares my feeling that it would be
>> more helpful to see ticket comments in reverse chronological  order,
>> i.e. with the most recent comment following the initial ticket text? Of
>> course I don't know whether that's even do-able, but if it is, I'd find
>> it a time saver, especially for tickets where the flow of comments is
>> --shall we say-- somewhat meandering.
>>
>>
>> On 17/06/13 14:28, James Cummings wrote:
>>> Hiya,
>>>
>>> In response to one of my actions I've investigated and with a bit
>>> of fiddling changed the priority field to be:  "1(low) 2 3 4
>>> *"5(default)" 6 7 8 "9(high)" which means going forward the '1'
>>> items will be '1(low)', etc. this is a bit awkward but better
>>> than just a set of unglossed numbers.
>>>
>>> This is a 'select' field, the other options for ticket metadata
>>> fields are:
>>> 'text', 'number', 'boolean', 'milestone' and 'user', which aren't
>>> as useful, I think, for this field.
>>>
>>> Let me know if anyone objects strongly to that, because I can
>>> revert it, otherwise new tickets will start using these glossed
>>> numbers.
>>>
>>> -James
>>>
>>
>

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