title: “Change Log Experiment” tags: news keywords: news permalink: 2020-05-06-change-log-experiment.html summary: “Announcing an experiment with the Change Log view” hide_sidebar: true hide_navtoggle: true toc: true

Change Log Experiment

On all googlesource.com Gerrit instances we are currently running a UX experiment in the Change Log. Some users will see a new version of that view, and we would like to collect feedback and validate these changes before rolling out to all users.

What is changing?

  • The “Only Comments” toggle is renamed to “Show all entries” and is set to off by default.

  • The rules for when log entries are shown have changed: All human messages are shown, but for autogenerated messages they are only shown on one patchset. If for example a CI system posts on patchsets 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and a Linter posts on patchsets 3, 5, 6, then the CI messages are only shown on ps 7, and the Linter messages are only shown on ps 6.

  • Full comment threads are shown in expanded entries instead of just the latest reply.

  • The additional filters/expanders “show all x messages” and “show x more” are removed, because the default filtered view is assumed to be short enough, such that additional filtering does not help. Users likely prefer a bit more scrolling than having to expand some hidden messages.

How to give feedback or report bugs?

Please use this link: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/gerrit/issues/entry?template=Experiment+Change+Log