Show component view in timeline view for checkins

[anonymous]

It would be kinda nice if Trac would show the name of the subproject in the timeline changesets.

so for example I could have a mapping:

• /trunk/printer/ = Printer
• /trunk/ABC_RP/ = Scripts
• /trunk/other/FileParser/ = FileParser

and based on the file names involved in the checkin, determine the component name by checking if the prefixes in the above list match any of the file names involved in the checkin.

So then in the timeline view, it would display for instance [Printer, Scripts] if my checkin affects Printer and Scripts.

[Christian Boos]

Support for this feature would require two extensions:

• pluggable timeline filters in additions to timeline providers: as opposed to providers, who provide a checkbox to provide or not their own events, a timeline filter could have a richer UI (e.g. a dropdown or a multiselectable list) and would see all the other events possibly filtering out some of them.
  Examples would be:
  • component filter
  • author filter
• be able to associate source objects (i.e. trac.versioncontrol.Node objects) and components. That could be done once we have Component objects (either "traditional" objects or specialized wiki objects), by creating relations between components and source objects.

[Christian Boos]

In the above comment, the first point actually addresses #1135 (as here there no mention of filtering in this ticket).

[Christian Boos]

(changing the status, as I've not actually started to work on that yet)

[Christian Boos]

(comment:1 bullet point 2 would be an interesting case of "dynamic" relationship)

[Christian Boos]

Milestone 2.0 deleted

[Christian Boos]

Worth mentioning that the [timeline] changeset_show_files setting accepts a "location" value which can be used as a workaround…

The idea of a mapping (path → component) is nevertheless interesting, especially in the context of MultiProject (e.g. for a given path, associate a specific "preferred" component from a given project, even if the path is visible from several projects).

[fbrettschneider@…]

One patch exists already in #1135.

Meanwhile, ​TH:SimpleMultiProjectPlugin implemented the filter for its custom ticket-field 'project' to show that information for each ticket in the timeline. See ​the timeline screenshot and its ​source code.