On Thursday, June 19, 2003, at 07:53 PM, Brent Vukmer wrote:

> Version 1.17 of the BugFixArchiveViewer package is now up on 
> SqueakMap.  The "tiny-menu" is significantly smaller now; the regexp 
> "filter by..." options are now text-entry fields in the top pane of 
> the main window.  Also I changed the layout so that the panes are 
> divided horizontally instead of vertically. 

Some feedback on the current version...  (maybe some of these are known 
limitations)

- I noticed a recent post of yours from the BugFixArchiveViewer had a 
shorter signature of about 5 lines, much shorter than the current 
18-line signature which is way too long IMHO.  But the current "mail 
the list" still includes the old long one.  I like the shorter one 
better, plus I might make it say "This post brought to you by..." at 
the beginning just so it's clear that this is an automated message.  
Also some sort of divider like a dotted line makes it look more like a 
signature, like this:

-------------------------------------
This post brought to you by the BugFixArchiveViewer, a handy tool that 
makes it easy to comment on proposed fixes and enhancements for Squeak. 
  For more information, check out the Web page for the 
BugFixArchiveViewer project: http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/3214


- I was hoping to be able to filter things so that *only* the 
[approved] items showed up, so that I could quickly see which ones to 
add to the update stream.  The text filter doesn't seem to filter on 
the tags, though.  Another way to do this would be to add another 
predefined filter (in addition to "show approved groups" etc) like 
"show open groups".  Then I could turn off "show open groups" and show 
only the approved groups.  (Or one might want to show only the 
update-number groups, for example.)

- I'm not sure how to get the "Documented"/"Reviewed"/etc checkboxes in 
the comments note pad to have an effect.  (It took me a little while to 
even think of trying the window menu in the first place to find 
those... most Squeak windows don't make use of them.  But that's a 
reasonable way to do handle things.)  Anyway, after checking the 
"Reviewed" checkbox, I thought if I selected "mail the list" that the 
[er] tag would appear in the subject line but it doesn't.

- The "Aggregated QA tags" field never contains anything.

Anyway, aside from these issues, it's a very handy tool... keep up the 
good work. :-)

- Doug Way
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