Show ticket component in Timeline

[thomas.akesson@…]

When a Trac instance covers many components:

• some users might be more interested in the component they work with
• ticket summary might not mention the component and must be places in context in order to be descriptive

There is a Hack for filtering the Timeline based on component, but unless filtering on just a single component it does not fully address the requirements for some users. ​http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/TimelineComponentFilterPlugin

Suggesting that the component is displayed in the Timeline if configuration ticket_show_component = true.

Example formatting: Ticket #123 (Component - Summary) updated by username

[thomas.akesson@…]

I have a semi-completed patch for this which modifies the ITimelineEventProvider parts of ticket/web_ui.py. It extends data to also contain the component and then allows the rendering to use it if configured to.

Suggestions or objections before I submit the patch?

Thanks!

[thomas.akesson@…]

Screenshot of tickets with components and one without.

[thomas.akesson@…]

Attached a screenshot showing an example. The top ticket was a test after removing all components to ensure that the code handled that gracefully.

[anonymous]

First attempt at a patch, ever.

[thomas.akesson@…]

I cleaned up the patch and submitted while I was at it.

Feedback welcome, it was my first attempt at the Trac codebase. I made the assumption that it might make it into Trac 1.1.

[Christian Boos]

Looks good to me.

The variable naming should keep the style we have elsewhere (componentprefix → component_prefix), but we can take care of this.

[Christian Boos]

Applied with a few minor modification in r11411. Thanks!

[Ryan J Ollos]

#8802 closed as a duplicate.