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Bug 359594

Summary:	Support deprecating comments
Product:	z_Archived	Reporter:	Sam Davis <sam.davis>
Component:	Mylyn	Assignee:	Mylyn Inbox <mylyn-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Whiteboard:

Description Sam Davis

2011-09-30 13:51:13 EDT

It would be useful to be able to mark comments as obsolete or deprecated. This might only be feasible if the repository supports it, but Mylyn could provide the framework support (e.g. a "Deprecate" button and API to test whether a repository supports it).

Comment 1 Sam Davis

2011-09-30 15:47:43 EDT

This is related to the idea of shared starred comments - bug 286294.

Comment 2 Sam Davis

2011-09-30 18:31:48 EDT

As an example of where I would use this, I just submitted a comment to a task with my feedback on a Word document, and then decided to turn that feedback into comments in the document itself, so I attached an updated version of the document that renders my previous comment obsolete. Similarly, a comment may contain a list of requirements which then gets superseded by a later comment.

Comment 3 Steffen Pingel

2011-11-05 14:57:11 EDT

I don't know of any repository that supports this. Do you have an example?

Comment 4 Sam Davis

2011-11-09 19:16:35 EST

Not at this moment, it's just something we may want in the future.

Comment 5 Steffen Pingel

2011-11-10 09:25:11 EST

I'll mark this as wontfix for now since we don't have sufficient indication at this point that the proposed enhancement would be consumed by clients of the tasks framework. Please feel free to reopen if that changes in the future and there are repositories that support comment deprecation on the server side.