I am wondering if it would be possible to modify the code for bugs.debian.org to show one additional bit of information. The last item of information shown for a bug summary on a b.d.o page is the age of the bug (that is, how long it has been since the bug was first opened). Would it be possible to show, after the age, how long it has been since the *last* activity? For example, if you go to http://bugs.debian.org/wnpp, you will see that one of the first bugs listed is: #138873: RFA: isdnbutton -- Start and Stop ISDN connections and display status Package: wnpp; Reported by: Roland Rosenfeld <roland@debian.org>; 4 years and 3 days old. Following the link for it shows that after the initial RFA was made, there was no other activity. What I am suggesting is that the summary then look like is this: #138873: RFA: isdnbutton -- Start and Stop ISDN connections and display status Package: wnpp; Reported by: Roland Rosenfeld <roland@debian.org>; Age: 4 years and 3 days old; Last active: 4 years and 3 days ago. On the other hand, another bug looks like this: #141693: RFA: gmod -- Module player for Ultrasound and SB AWE soundcards Package: wnpp; Reported by: Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@iki.fi>; 3 years and 347 days old. However, the bug has had some activity a few months ago and would look like this: #141693: RFA: gmod -- Module player for Ultrasound and SB AWE soundcards Package: wnpp; Reported by: Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@iki.fi>; Age: 3 years and 347 days old; Last active: 197 days ago. I think this would help provide additional information at a glance. Additionally, since the bugs are usually sorted by category and then by age, it might be worthwhile to add the option to sort by category and by last active date, or something like that. If the consensus is that this is generally a good idea, then I intend to file a bug against bugs.debian.org to request the feature. Though, looking at the list of bugs (and their ages) filed against bugs.debian.org I would welcome any suggestions on how I can help to get this implemented. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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