[RFI][BFAV] Item ordering in the BugFixArchiveViewer

Brent Vukmer bvukmer at blackboard.com
Mon Jul 21 13:46:11 UTC 2003


Hmm.  Originally, I sorted by mostRecentDate as Daniel describes.
However this creates funky behavior when a number of groups all have
equivalent mostRecentDate values.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Vainsencher [mailto:danielv at netvision.net.il] 
> Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 9:29 AM
> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
> Cc: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> Subject: Re: [RFI][BFAV] Item ordering in the BugFixArchiveViewer
> 
> 
> I agree the ordering should be as you describe. It appears 
> the order is defined in BugFixArchive>>initialize by:
>     archivePostGroups _ SortedCollection sortBlock: [ :a :b | 
> a maxUid > b maxUid ].
> 
> Changing that line to -
>     archivePostGroups _ SortedCollection sortBlock: 
> sortBlock: [ :a :b | a mostRecentDate > b mostRecentDate].
> 
> Fixes it. The sort order doesn't match the dates in the group 
> labels, which slightly bugs me, but I'm not sure what people 
> use those dates for, so I don't know how it should be.
> 
> Daniel
> 
> Doug Way <dway at riskmetrics.com> wrote:
> > 
> > I was having trouble finding some items in the BFAV when 
> compared with
> > the sqfixes page at http://swiki.gsug.org:8080/SQFIXES/ , and I 
> > realized that the BFAV orders the items according to the 
> date of the 
> > first post on an item, whereas the sqfixes site orders 
> items according 
> > to the most recent post.
> > 
> > I think I like the "most recent post" behavior of the sqfixes site
> > better, since it brings up recently commented items to the 
> top of the 
> > list.  Would it make sense to change the BFAV to do this?
> > 
> > - Doug Way
> 
> 



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