better summary line for merge requests

Bug #385265 reported by Jelmer Vernooij
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Launchpad itself
Triaged
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

The short description of merge requests currently just use the branch name. This often isn't very clear, in particular when "bzr send" was used to generate the merge requests (~<user>/<project>/merge-<number>) and makes it necessary to view the actual merge request page to see what the request is about.

See e.g. my activereviews page:
https://code.edge.launchpad.net/~jelmer/+activereviews

In contrast the list from BundleBuggy is a lot more informative:
http://bundlebuggy.aaronbentley.com/

It would be nice if the subject from the email could be used as the one-line summary for merge requests in the overview.

Jonathan Lange (jml)
tags: added: code-review
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Jonathan Lange (jml) wrote :

I think this is actually harder than it sounds.

We don't store the subject line of the email in any special location (I think) and we certainly don't have an equivalent of the subject for merge proposals submitted through the web.

I'm a little surprised we don't have better auto-generated names for the 'bzr send'-generated requests.

Tim, Aaron: Any ideas?

Changed in launchpad-code:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Triaged
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Aaron Bentley (abentley) wrote :

We may not have special storage for a "merge proposal title" or something, but we have easy access to the subject of the initial email, so we can just use that. For web-based proposals, we could allow the subject of the initial message to be specified, too.

It's a hack, but it gets around doing a database patch.

Aaron Bentley (abentley)
tags: added: email
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