Every few months we make a few improvements to Trac. Given how many hours so many of us spend on there, even the smallest changes can make a big difference. Today, a few new changes were deployed.
The first thing you’ll notice is a design refresh, from @helenyhou and @ocean90. It cools down the colors a bit and places more of our own mark on it (more WP-like, less Trac-y). They also added responsiveness for mobile devices, and made some adjustments to improve readability. See #18211. If you notice any bugs or quirks, please leave a comment there.
From @iammattthomas, the WordPress logo is now HiDPI.
If you’re a bug gardener (i.e. you can change milestones, etc.), you can now change the resolution of a closed ticket. This should make @sergeybiryukov happy — no more re-open to re-close.
Over the last few weeks I’ve given more than a dozen people bug gardener status. We’d like to empower the people we know and trust to make decisions, while making Trac simpler for others.
For those who aren’t bug gardeners, we’re trying to make it as easy and streamlined as possible for you to create and contribute to tickets. @bpetty has been studying our workflow and recommending changes. One of those is we’ve hidden the ability to change ownership of a ticket (accept/assign/reviewing). A big issue with ownership is it sometimes discourages others from contributing. I hope this change can free us up to using that field for tracking responsibility and accountability.
Non-gardeners can also no longer label tickets a “task”. Also, once the Version field is set, a user can’t update the field to a newer version, only an older one. (As @sergeybiryukov says, “version number indicates when the bug was initially introduced/reported.” It’s the earliest known affected version for a bug, or the earliest applicable version for an enhancement.)
And finally, if you add the “has-patch” keyword to a ticket, “needs-patch” will automatically be removed, and vice versa. (It’s the little things.)
I hope you enjoy this round of changes. If you have any further suggestions, please share in the comments.
Bonus. A few weeks ago, we added a ticket graph, inspired by jQuery and using their plugin as a base. I hope to add some more functionality to this in the future. For now, a few of us are using it to study trends and come up with some new ideas for how we can best maintain the ticket queues.
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It reminds me of Ikea every time I see it, and now I want Swedish Meatballs.
Frank Bültge 2:23 pm on April 11, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Nice. congratulations.
I am very pleased about that.
WraithKenny 2:23 pm on April 11, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Congrats!
Subharanjan 2:24 pm on April 11, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Congrats…
Tom Auger 2:24 pm on April 11, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Way to go ocean90! With great responsibility comes free drinks. Cheers!
Konstantin Kovshenin 2:24 pm on April 11, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Woot! Congrats Dominik!
George Stephanis 2:31 pm on April 11, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Heck yeah! Glad to see the first commit in IRC yesterday!
demetris 2:31 pm on April 11, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Congrats, Dominik!
Tony Scott 2:32 pm on April 11, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Congrats, Dominik…
Mustafa Uysal 2:33 pm on April 11, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Run Dominik run, congratulations
Beau Lebens 2:33 pm on April 11, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Awesome, congratulations Dominik. Love seeing new folks make it into the core team!
Jose Castaneda 2:46 pm on April 11, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Congrats!
portfola 2:59 pm on April 11, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Way to go!
Torsten Landsiedel 3:27 pm on April 11, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Yeehaw! Congratulations Dominik! (And I am a little, very very little part of it…
Lance Willett 3:50 pm on April 11, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Well deserved, Dominik. Keep up your great work.
Cătălin Dogaru 4:12 pm on April 11, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Congratulations, Dominik!
seville76 4:29 pm on April 11, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Great news Dominik! Well deserved! Keep on the good work!
Sterian Alina Nicoleta 4:49 pm on April 11, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Congratulations, Dominik!
anseltaft 4:51 pm on April 11, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Well done! Can’t wait to work with your code!
masukmian 4:53 pm on April 11, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Congratulations!
Oliver Schloebe 5:34 pm on April 11, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Glad to see Max Giermann made it into the 3.6 team!
Caspar 5:50 pm on April 11, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Woot!!! Congratulations, go Dominik!
Monika 6:38 pm on April 11, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Dominik, congratulation,
Sergey Biryukov 9:46 pm on April 11, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Congrats! Well deserved, indeed.
Gary Pendergast 1:39 am on April 12, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Hooray for @ocean90!
Franz Josef Kaiser 10:05 am on April 12, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Hey Dom, grats! – Keep up the good work.
daveshine (David Decker) 1:08 pm on April 12, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Congrats, Dominik! Servus from Germany
Mike Schroder 9:41 pm on April 12, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Congrats! This is awesome to hear
vinod dalvi 11:40 am on April 13, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Congrats……..!!!!!!!
Paul Gibbs 7:22 pm on April 13, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Congrats!
John James Jacoby 8:48 am on April 16, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Well deserved. Props.
amdirect 10:28 pm on April 16, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Many congratulations Dominick!
minple 6:30 pm on April 22, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply
congrats