Show who changed a file in the versions tab

[butonic]

While the activity app shows me who did what when, it is frustrating not to see who created a certain version in the versions tab. So, when I need to blame someone to have messed with a document my brain quickly starts to hurt when I try to match events in the two tabs.

We should somehow merge the two tabs ... or show more info in the versions tab.

Pulling @owncloud/designers for UX guidance

CC @MTRichards

[PVince81]

For merging activity + versions + comments, see timeline tab: #20259 (which has some technical challenges)

Regarding versions, we never store the information about who changed the file, so this would also need a new column somewhere.

[PVince81]

Note that one of the challenge with version + activity is that the timestamps might not match 100%.
Ideally there should be a stronger semantic connection on database level between these too.

[jancborchardt]

Yeah – regarding this whole thing I can only reiterate what @PVince81 mentioned above and what I’ve been saying since ages: We need to combine everything in one stream: #20259

Sure there’s technical challenges, but since it’s such a core part of our product we should work on solving them. Currently we basically just dump database tables and that’s not a nice UX. ownCloud should feel well integrated and not like a set of features thrown together.

cc @owncloud/designers

[jancborchardt]

For that reason I’d also say we should work on this for 9.1 – @MTRichards @karlitschek?

[MTRichards]

Definitely worth considering - not sure how hard this is, or how it will stack up - but yes.

[karlitschek]

yes. i agree.

[PVince81]

Are you guys agreeing with the ticket title "Show who changed a file in the versions tab" or with the more extended timeline unification that @jancborchardt proposed here #20259

The timeline unification is a bigger beast, there are some challenges to work through, design-wise and architecture-wise. (which I will list in the linked ticket at some point when I have some time after the freeze)

[karlitschek]

Well it's all about steps in my opinion :-) I agree with the ultimate vision of @jancborchardt But we might have to take a few smaller steps before we get there. Showing who created a revision might be an intermediate step. Let's discuss later for 9.1 what we can do when.

[jancborchardt]

Cool, thanks for putting it in the 9.1 milestone!

[PVince81]

Best would be if the versions app would simply store the user id of who made the change and expose that in the versions tab.

Moving to backlog for now @pmaier1

[pmaier1]

@PVince81 Yup. When we do it, we should do it properly as you suggested #20259