Comment 8 for bug 583623

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Curtis Hovey (sinzui) wrote :

I Looked at how bug reporting works and I am astonished that the guilde view works exactly like answers, using the same mechanisms, yet is not getting nearly as many insane summaries. 250 characters looks like the magic number in Lp Bugs: 516 (0.0008% of all bugs) exceed the 250 characters. There is no evidence of any oopses caused by nl_phrase returning more phrases than can be handled. Answers has 310 (0.002%) and it oopses every month. Answers has a different user base and that may be the reason that the difference in large titles.

The simplest fix for this issue is to use displayMaxWidth=250 in the QuestionAddView. Changing the field may not be worth the effort since we want bugs and questions to be interchangable.
     custom_widget('title', TextWidget, displayWidth=40, displayMaxWidth=250)