Trac improvements!
A number of tweaks to Trac have just been pushed live, restoring our Trac template broken a few months ago and adding a number of new enhancements.
The biggest change is a new workflow for keywords. (Believe it or not, the JS is mine.) It is now a nifty tag list with a drop-down:
I tried to order them in a way that makes sense. Recognized keywords also have tooltips explaining what they mean. As a last resort, you can still manually edit keywords by clicking the little link. Also, a few keywords will be hidden for most users.
Other changes:
- There’s now a giant warning when creating a ticket. (Embedded at right.) Most of the text is from our old template, and the visual was inspired by jQuery’s warning.
- Tickets are again left-aligned. The ticket properties and attachments should also now be easier to scan. The Modify section is now open by default again.
- Gravatars are back for comments, and were added to reporters and owners.
- The After the Deadline button is back, and integrated nicely into the toolbar. (You can see this in either screenshot.)
- Long ticket titles no longer force horizontal scrolling on reports.
- There is now a license note when uploading a patch.
Please suggest any other Trac improvements, and find me if there are any bugs.
Andrew Nacin 4:34 am on February 16, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
dremeda has already informed me of a grammar mistake in the new ticket warning (“This form is for reporting bugs…”), which I’ll fix in the next round.
One thing I’d like to do is add a warning for reporters, when they’re viewing their own ticket and it has the reporter-feedback keyword on it. Though the text needs some polishing, I already have a mockup:
Barry 3:22 pm on February 16, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Typo fixed.
Sergey Biryukov 7:13 am on February 16, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Am I the only one with a long e-mail? 🙂
Sergey Biryukov 7:14 am on February 16, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
http://i54.tinypic.com/esj8ub.jpg
Brian Layman 7:15 am on February 16, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
This looks pretty slick. Nice job.
scribu 8:20 am on February 16, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Very cool!
I presume you saw this ticket #16425 🙂
Andrew Nacin 12:13 am on February 17, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Yeah, I think that might have been what got me to notice.
Valentinas 9:05 am on February 16, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Workflow keywords! Nice 🙂
ocean90 11:19 am on February 16, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Pretty nice!
John Blackbourn 9:09 pm on February 16, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Looks great!
Any way to automatically add the ticket reporter to the CC list on a ticket? It’s odd and annoying that opening a ticket doesn’t add you to the CC list.
Andrew Nacin 12:13 am on February 17, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Yep, and it’s part of a second round of changes going up later this week.
Andrew Nacin 6:31 pm on February 17, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Done.