Comment 6 for bug 335120

I discussed this again with Gavin at UDS. It appears this bug has been blocked because the Launchpad team wishes to implement a more sophisticated comment management system, but there isn't an ETA on when that will be done. In the interim, it still seems worthwhile for implementing something really simple like this.

A further refinement of the idea is to have it display the first 40 and last 40 comments. That way if the initial comments have some useful context, that's still there.

Frankly, the need for this has only grown with time. As Ubuntu increases in popularity, a high profile bug report (linked to from external news sources for example) can easily grow to >500 comments, at which point the full comments view times out, and no one can see recent comments except through email (and as a result, the quality of the comments diminishes swiftly).