Launchpad itself

Most recent not the best display order

Bug #77701 reported by Sam Brightman
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Launchpad itself
Fix Released
High
Deryck Hodge
Launchpad itself 10.02

Bug Description

I don't think that "most recent" is always the best display order on some pages. Most active or some such thing would be much more useful. This is certainly the case on, for example, products pages. Possibly also for bugs on overview pages - most active or most critical would seem more appropriate. I can see that here the recent bugs/support requests could be useful for triage but I think a user coming to the overview would more likely benefit from the common bugs/requests being listed, whereas an admin/developer would have a recent bugs page bookmarked.

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lp:~deryck/launchpad/sort-by-heat-as-default-77701
Rejected for merging into lp:launchpad/db-devel
Graham Binns (community): Approve
Diff: 260 lines (+47/-54)
7 files modified
lib/lp/bugs/browser/bugtask.py (+1/-1)
lib/lp/bugs/browser/tests/bugtask-search-views.txt (+7/-7)
lib/lp/bugs/stories/bugs/xx-front-page-search.txt (+7/-14)
lib/lp/bugs/stories/bugtask-searches/xx-advanced-people-filters.txt (+1/-1)
lib/lp/bugs/stories/bugtask-searches/xx-listing-basics.txt (+14/-14)
lib/lp/bugs/stories/bugtask-searches/xx-sort-orders.txt (+12/-12)
lib/lp/bugs/templates/bugtarget-macros-search.pt (+5/-5)
lp:~deryck/launchpad/hot-bugs-list-515232
Gavin Panella (community): Approve
Diff: 256 lines (+104/-37)
4 files modified
lib/lp/bugs/browser/bugtarget.py (+24/-0)
lib/lp/bugs/browser/bugtask.py (+9/-14)
lib/lp/bugs/stories/bugs/xx-product-bugs-page.txt (+61/-18)
lib/lp/bugs/templates/bugtarget-bugs.pt (+10/-5)
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Sam Brightman (sambrightman) wrote :

Also related: when you go to your personal page overview is always the default page (as opposed to say, bugs assigned/reported). Maybe launchpad should have preference cookies for these issues?

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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote :

As I understand the design, the list of most recent things (bugs, specifications, etc) on Overview pages is intended to indicate activity in the project, rather than to be useful in itself.

Retaining the application (e.g. "Bugs") as you switch contexts is a separate issue, and one we're implementing gradually.

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Sam Brightman (sambrightman) wrote :

That is really what I meant - that it is not a good indicator of activity (well, it shows that there is activity as opposed to none, but not where/what the acitvity is). Some random product or bug that has just been added (possibly even spurious) is likely to be of no use. And without wishing to sound too incredulous ;) I would ask why on earth one would desire to have a page that is not "useful in itself". If you feel that showing existence of activity is more useful than a useful interface, fair enough (I don't). But if not, why bother? I'm thinking something more like the "most common bugs" thing that appears when you submit a bug. People coming to products/bugs pages are more likely to be looking for/affected by the most active ones.

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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote :

Fair enough.

Changed in malone:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Deryck Hodge (deryck) wrote :

We're considering, please note *considering* :-), making bug heat the default sort order. Adding this bug to our work queue for this week's sprint to remind us to re-consider what the default sort order should be.

Changed in malone:
status: Confirmed → Triaged
importance: Undecided → High
tags: added: story-bug-heat
Deryck Hodge (deryck)
Changed in malone:
assignee: nobody → Deryck Hodge (deryck)
status: Triaged → In Progress
Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
Changed in malone:
milestone: none → 10.01
Deryck Hodge (deryck)
Changed in malone:
milestone: 10.01 → none
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Deryck Hodge (deryck) wrote :

After discussions with Martin A., we will not change the default sort ordering for all listings, but we will change the bugs overview pages to show real bug heat, which is bug 515232. That change will fix the main point of this bug, that most recent is not a good overview page sort order.

Changed in malone:
milestone: none → 10.02
Revision history for this message
Diogo Matsubara (matsubara) wrote : Bug fixed by a commit

Fixed in devel r10314 <http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~launchpad-pqm/launchpad/devel/revision/10314>

Changed in malone:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Deryck Hodge (deryck)
Changed in malone:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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