i find it incredibly confusing sometimes, looking at issues, since the info at the very top has the current issue-wide values of a bunch of stuff, yet the original post might have had a different title, project, etc, etc. i think it'd make much more sense for the current values of the issue to be displayed at the top, then the original values of everything with the original post, then all the followups and the trail of what changed when. of course, this might look a little silly on initial posts that have no followups, so maybe the "current values" section should only appear once there are followups. or, better yet, it should only appear once there are followups that changed something.

unfortunately, although this seems like it should be a relatively minor UI change, implementation-wise, this is a mess. we don't actually save the original values at all, only the current values and the trail of changes. :( so, we'd have to either reverse-compute the originals (ugh!) or change the schema to start storing the originals. neither are very attractive options. but, the UI is driving me a little nuts as it currently exists, so i'd like to see it change.

note: this is sort of related to http://drupal.org/node/148712 but different. that's talking about the UI on the follow-up form. i'm talking about the UI of just viewing an issue.

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hunmonk’s picture

Title: seperate the issue's current title and stats from the original posting » display the initial issue metadata with the initial issue post
Component: Issues » User interface
Category: bug » feature

http://drupal.org/node/18920 includes basic support for this in that it stores the original issue metadata permanently. we still need to figure out how to display this without making things even more confusing. i'm going to push this to postponed for now, since we've got a lot more important things to look at.

mgifford’s picture

Issue summary: View changes
Status: Active » Postponed
Issue tags: +issue queue
Related issues: +#18920: make project_issue.module use comment.module.

Coming from https://drupal.org/node/1080550

Maybe we can close this issue? Maybe moving it back to Postponed as @hunmonk suggested.

drumm’s picture

Status: Postponed » Closed (won't fix)

Now that the top of the issue page is the issue summary instead of original issue data, the top of the page is consistently current information.