This tasks represents the work with researching the technical constraints we will need to consider when designing a feature that will enable contributors to edit single comments posted to talk pages (e.g. How can the software reliably detect the boundaries of a comment so the proper amount of editable content is presented to contributors when they click "edit"?)
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Invalid | None | T242561 Replying v1.1: release to target wikis | |||
| Open | None | T245225 Implement editing specific comments | |||
| Open | None | T242562 Develop a technical approach for editing a specific comment | |||
| Resolved | ppelberg | T245220 Comment parser should report range of comment and signature separately |
There's questions regarding whether we should include any sort of "this comment was edited" notice on an edited comment. Meeting discussion leans towards "no", in part because there's no good way to link to the revision history showing the change without making a second edit to add that link in.
We've started on an approach based on David's rebalancer, which can slice a reply tree into three balanced parts based on an arbitrary selection. We still need to work out how to handle the number of lines within a comment change works, and also how to keep the signature out of the edit range (T245220).
For the time being, we are going to pause development on the new workflow for editing single comments on talk pages.
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