On 04.03.25 02:21, Jelte Fennema-Nio wrote:
> 6. The "latest email" column now shows "time since" (e.g. 1 week ago)
> instead of an exact timestamp. You can still see the exact timestamp
> by hovering over the cell.
Another small complaint: I don't like this style of relative times. (I
have also complained about it for the buildfarm status in the past.) I
suppose both styles are useful like 50% of the time, but I'll tell you
some of my reasoning:
1) It is often more useful to eyeball whether a patch was last updated
in 2025-01-XX or 2025-02-XX or 2025-03-XX. It doesn't really matter how
many days or weeks that was, it matters more where in the commitfest
cadence the update happened.
2) Similarly, for recently updated entries it is more useful to see
whether something was updated this week or last week. "3 days ago"
could be earlier this week, or last week, or just before the weekend, so
effectively 1 day ago. This is sometimes useful, and the relative
specification hides that.
3) The mental overhead of analyzing something like "3 months, 3 weeks
ago", which is non-decimal, negative, and does not consistently align
vertically, is just a lot.
