Mailing List Archive: Milestone management

Milestone management

May 13, 2021, 2:33 PM

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We've been using Trac for around 14 years and have amassed several hundred
milestones. Is there a good way to manage these so the various dropdowns
aren't freakishly long? I know the open milestones sort to the top, but
that still isn't ideal.

Deleting the milestone certainly works, but we lose the ability to see
which tickets where in what milestone with that approach. Also not great.

Changing the control from a pure dropdown to an editable combobox
<https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-practices-1.2/examples/combobox/combobox-autocomplete-list.html>
would be great, or an Archived state that prevented the dropdowns from
populating those milestones.

I'm guessing the answer here is going to be "Good idea -- write a plugin!"
with a strong dash of "It sounds like you aren't using milestones
correctly..." but I'm hoping someone else might have already addressed this.

Thanks!
-mck

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Re: Milestone management [ In reply to ]

rjollos at gmail

May 13, 2021, 6:54 PM

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On Thursday, May 13, 2021 at 5:33:13 PM UTC-4 Michael K wrote:

> We've been using Trac for around 14 years and have amassed several hundred
> milestones. Is there a good way to manage these so the various dropdowns
> aren't freakishly long? I know the open milestones sort to the top, but
> that still isn't ideal.

The closed milestones won't be shown in the ticket view provided you don't
have TICKET_ADMIN. I think, or is it MILESTONE_ADMIN?

> Deleting the milestone certainly works, but we lose the ability to see
> which tickets where in what milestone with that approach. Also not great.
>

Yeah, the proposed archive feature may be useful or milestones as well:
https://trac.edgewall.org/ticket/11637

Changing the control from a pure dropdown to an editable combobox
> <https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-practices-1.2/examples/combobox/combobox-autocomplete-list.html>
> would be great, or an Archived state that prevented the dropdowns from
> populating those milestones.
>

Discussed a little bit here:
https://trac.edgewall.org/ticket/13019

I'm guessing the answer here is going to be "Good idea -- write a plugin!"
> with a strong dash of "It sounds like you aren't using milestones
> correctly..." but I'm hoping someone else might have already addressed this.
>
> Thanks!
> -mck
>

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Re: Milestone management [ In reply to ]

stijn.bouwhuis at gmail

May 22, 2021, 1:02 AM

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You could use and/or extend one of the following plugins:

- https://trac-hacks.org/wiki/ListMilestonesMacro
- https://trac-hacks.org/wiki/MilestoneQueryMacro
- https://trac-hacks.org/wiki/RoadmapFilterPlugin
- https://trac-hacks.org/wiki/RoadmapPlugin

On Friday, 14 May 2021 at 03:54:42 UTC+2 RjOllos wrote:

> On Thursday, May 13, 2021 at 5:33:13 PM UTC-4 Michael K wrote:
>
>> We've been using Trac for around 14 years and have amassed several
>> hundred milestones. Is there a good way to manage these so the various
>> dropdowns aren't freakishly long? I know the open milestones sort to the
>> top, but that still isn't ideal.
>
>
> The closed milestones won't be shown in the ticket view provided you don't
> have TICKET_ADMIN. I think, or is it MILESTONE_ADMIN?
>
>
>> Deleting the milestone certainly works, but we lose the ability to see
>> which tickets where in what milestone with that approach. Also not great.
>>
>
> Yeah, the proposed archive feature may be useful or milestones as well:
> https://trac.edgewall.org/ticket/11637
>
> Changing the control from a pure dropdown to an editable combobox
>> <https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-practices-1.2/examples/combobox/combobox-autocomplete-list.html>
>> would be great, or an Archived state that prevented the dropdowns from
>> populating those milestones.
>>
>
> Discussed a little bit here:
> https://trac.edgewall.org/ticket/13019
>
> I'm guessing the answer here is going to be "Good idea -- write a plugin!"
>> with a strong dash of "It sounds like you aren't using milestones
>> correctly..." but I'm hoping someone else might have already addressed this.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> -mck
>>
>

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