Allow sorting and filtering of notes displayed in user profile

[rudolfmayer]

Not sure if this was already reported in some way, at least I couldn't find anything in the open issues.

My request is as follows - the user page displaying the notes created, e.g. mine at http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Rudolf%20Mayer/notes, should allow for

• sorting by creation date, solved date, name, ...
• filtering; here especially I would like to be able to display only the unresolved notes, as these are the ones I'd like to work on improving.

Thanks for your consideration,
Rudolf

[mattflaschen]

I would also appreciate being able to filter to show only notes I created.

As is, there is no way to do so, which means notes you triage or comment on become commingled into one large list.

[mnalis]

I absolutely agree, especially on filtering by unresolved notes.

I've dozen of "my notes" pages, and if a note ever need work that I cannot do immediately (eg. it need resurveying), it will fall behind first few pages and with current situation I'll likely never see (and hence will not give attention to) that note again...

Or at least, firstly show all unresolved notes, and only after them all resolved notes. That one should literally be single line change in the code (modifying ORDER BY clause) so extremely easy to do, should not stop on anybody toes, and would increase functionality a lot.

[mnalis]

since I couldn't wait for this to be implemented, as a temporary workaround I made it myself:
http://my-notes.osm-hr.org/
( or go grab the source yourself at https://github.com/osm-hr/my-osm-notes )

You can specify one (or several) users, and it will show only unresolved notes that they created or participated in (commented, closed, reopened etc). It uses Notes planet dump, so only gets updated once a day. Real solution in openstreetmap website would be much better (and operate in realtime), so hopefully this ticket would get some attention. Until it does, you're welcome to use instance above.

[mnalis]

see also https://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/5205

[letypequividelespoubelles]

any developement coming sson ? It seems it's an expected feature !

[gravitystorm]

any developement coming sson ? It seems it's an expected feature !

Volunteers welcome! Otherwise, it's like many other features and is waiting in the list.

[letypequividelespoubelles]

@gravitystorm :) Unfortunetaly I don't have the dev skills :(

[mnalis]

@gravitystorm You say volunteers are welcome... Hypothetically speaking, if one were to invest the effort into investigating codebase and writing a pull request to implement sorting by note status / date, what are the chances they'd be getting feedback/hints from OSM people with commit privileges and PR eventually being accepted (if it is written up to the standards, of course)?

I'm asking as I've obviously been interested enough to write 3rd party workaround for this issue (see previous comments), and might be interested to fix it at the source, but for last OSM PR I've invested time to learn and write (after getting similar "invitation" implying that such feature would be accepted if written in specific way) I've been unable to get anybody with commit rights to even comment on, and much less accept it, despite several attempts to reach them, for more than 3 months (see PR openstreetmap/chef#383 and openstreetmap/chef#373).

Which is, needless to say, highly demotivating. I'm first to understand that OSM team has a lots of work to do, and that some tickets are way less important than others... But I would've expected some communication (even if it was just to say they don't like the coding style, or that they want it done differently etc) at least once a month? Is that too optimistic, or am I trying to use wrong communication channels (issues and PRs)?

I understand that it is different OSM repo and a different issue, but I really want to make very sure I won't be wasting a lot of my time and effort if I decide to try to tackle this one... I hope you understand (and I also hope nobody takes this personally, that is not my intention), and can provide some insight. Thanks!

[tomhughes]

Well those PRs are to a different project and being dealt with by a different person that doesn't even have commit here so I'm not sure there is any relation to this?