Comment 2 for bug 79495

On 16 Jan 2007, David Allouche <email address hidden> wrote:
> That's an intriguing suggestion.
>
> It would have to be done in a way compatible with bug 79493 (highlight
> important branches).
>
> My gut feeling is that branch which had no new revisions (per branch
> scanner) in "some time" could be marked with an extra attribute, to
> preserve the user-specified status. I am not sure how that should be
> displayed in the UI.

Yes. I talked briefly with Tim about this yesterday.

I think they could be displayed in any of these ways:

 * pushed to the bottom of the list
 * showed faded out (eg with text in 80% gray not black)
 * hidden by default unless you choose a "show inactive branches" option

The first two would probably only be understandable if you have an
indication of when the branch was last modified.

I think for these purposes it would be ok to take the last change date
as either

 * the date of the last revision
 * or the date the branch was last seen to change

whichever is easier. The case of a branch which is updated by pulling
very old revisions is negligible.

--
Martin