[aur-dev] [PATCH 1/2] Add capability to pin comments above others

[Lukas Fleischer]

On Sat, 28 Nov 2015 at 16:01:06, Mark Weiman wrote:
> [...]
> I was thinking that rather than having to retype the same information
> (or copy and paste), we could just pin a comment from anyone and if
> multiple comments have good information, we can pin all of them. Only 5
> get displayed unless you go to the "comments=all" page.
> 

Sounds good to me.

> [...]
> To begin, the only reason I made two patches is because my Postfix
> server would complain when the patch got too long (lost connection
> after DATA error) while using git-send-email, so I made two smaller
> patches to get around that issue. Nothing I did could solve that
> problem.
> 

Note that there is a patch size limit on this mailing list as well.
However, there is nothing wrong with splitting such a large a patch into
back and front end changes.

> The idea I was going for was rather than removing the comment order
> below (preserving the readability of a conversation), just make a copy
> of it above. While doing that, make a new header above that says
> "Pinned Comments" above the pinned comments, then do the normal "Latest
> Comments" section. If you think it should be a single comment from the
> maintainer that is displaced, I can make that change.
> 

Okay. Maybe we can still share a lot of code between the function that
retrieves all comments and the function to retrieve pinned comments?

> [...]
> I will for sure simplify that function, but if you think it's better to
> delete it altogether, I'll get to work on making it work. Perhaps also
> a rework the other two "array" functions (can_edit_comment_array() and
> can_delete_comment_array()) should be done in the future if the
> can_pin_comment_array() function is removed or the comment is changed.
> [...]

I am fine with simplifying the function. We can still refactor all the
can_*_comment_array() functions in another patch series.

Regards,
Lukas