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Bug 272970

Summary:	[editor] support quoting attachments, e.g. patches, when replying
Product:	z_Archived	Reporter:	Alex Blewitt <alex.blewitt>
Component:	Mylyn	Assignee:	Project Inbox <mylyn-triaged>
Status:	CLOSED MOVED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P4	CC:	steffen.pingel
Version:	unspecified	Keywords:	helpwanted
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Alex Blewitt

2009-04-20 15:50:27 EDT

Currently, a lot of the Git commiters use e-mail instead of an issue control system to store patches. (One possible reason is that there isn't a central issue database, unlike Eclipse where it's commonplace.) In any case, for whatever reason, patches-by-email has become the defacto standard of operation.

One feature of this, over an issue tracker item, is the ability to quote the patch itself to rebut certain changes or suggestions. This sounds like the kind of thing that Mylyn could easily do, given that it has access to the attachments associated with a task, and that 'reply' has already been a part of replying to other comments. It should be possible, therefore, to reply-quote the latest patch, at leats iniitally to get the dialog going. Other Eclipse committers might find such functionality useful as well.

Comment 1 Alex Blewitt

2009-04-28 04:30:30 EDT

This should be fairly easy to do, right? Any idea where to start? I guess the 'bugzilla' action is the one to target here.

Comment 2 Steffen Pingel

2009-04-30 22:46:00 EDT

A good start would be AbstractReplyToCommentAction which is used by the task editor for the reply buttons. CompareAttachmentsAction is an example of an action that is contributed to the popup menu of the attachment table.

Comment 3 Eclipse Webmaster

2022-11-15 11:45:08 EST

Mylyn has been restructured, and our issue tracking has moved to GitHub [1].

We are closing ~14K Bugzilla issues to give the new team a fresh start. If you feel that this issue is still relevant, please create a new one on GitHub.

[1] https://github.com/orgs/eclipse-mylyn