bug comments are not numbered

[Elias K Gardner]

There is no easy way to refers to a particular comment (without pasting in its permalink). If comments were numbered it would greatly simplify bugs with multiple discussions.

[Matthew East (mdke)]

I agree. It's a common thing with other bug trackers to refer to a previous comment by its number. With Launchpad, that is difficult because the comments are not numbered in the main bug page (by contrast with the permalink page). Please add numbers to the comments!

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

I think the lack of comment numbers is a feature, not a bug. Anything that encourages replies to specific comments other than the last one makes multiple discussions more likely, which makes the report harder to read and understand and more likely to go off-topic.

[Graham Binns (gmb)]

This becomes more of a problem when you consider bugs for which we sync comments with remote bug trackers. Do the comment numbers refer to the comment number in relation to the bug? If so, do they refer to the Launchpad comment number or the remote bug tracker comment number (when talking about imported comments)? When we push comments back to remote bug trackers it could get a bit confusing for people to refer to "comment #1": Is that Launchpad comment #1 or remote bug tracker comment #1? and so on.

[Elias K Gardner (zorkerz)]

Thats a really good point Graham. The issue that I run into is that some bug
threads got long and complicated either from many unnecessary comments or
just a big topic. It could make a bug much easier to read if there was an
easy way to reference a specific comment.

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

For hiding unnecessary comments, see bug 1734.

[Christian Reis (kiko)]

On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 03:14:47PM -0000, Elias K Gardner wrote:
> Thats a really good point Graham. The issue that I run into is that some bug
> threads got long and complicated either from many unnecessary comments or
> just a big topic.

Isn't the right solution to this managing the unnecessary comments
directly, hiding or demoting them?
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[Martin Albisetti (beuno)]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 3:39 PM, Christian Reis <email address hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 03:14:47PM -0000, Elias K Gardner wrote:
>> Thats a really good point Graham. The issue that I run into is that some bug
>> threads got long and complicated either from many unnecessary comments or
>> just a big topic.
>
> Isn't the right solution to this managing the unnecessary comments
> directly, hiding or demoting them?

Or, well, threading in the UI :)

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Martin

[Elias K Gardner (zorkerz)]

I think often times you are right however sometimes large bugthreads have
multiple relevant conversations causing the discussion to quickly become
hard to follow especially for someone just joining the discussion. Im not
longer convinced however that numbering the comments would fully solve this
issue. Especially considering the above mentioned downsides to numbered
comments.

[Elias K Gardner (zorkerz)]

I was looking through old bugs and realized this has been fixed.