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| 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" |
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| ## Change Log Experiment |
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| 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. |
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| ## What is changing? |
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| - 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 |
| individual comment. For example a "Done." reply is shown in the context of the |
| comment that it is referring to. This is similar to how comment threads are |
| shown in the diff views and on the Comment Threads tab. |
| |
| - 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. |
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| ## How to give feedback or report bugs? |
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| Please use this link: |
| <https://bugs.chromium.org/p/gerrit/issues/entry?template=Experiment+Change+Log> |
