"Developer" features for Issues

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deviantintegral's picture

I've created a javascript which adds plain-text links to issues for easy copy / paste into issue comments. For information, see the handbook page. But this brings up a topic for the redesign - what functions or features are missing which would be useful to developers? I'm sure many of them belong in project.module, but obviously how they are implemented would affect the redesign :)

To start, I think it would be really useful if issues could have a CCK nodereference field to link to related issues. It would also mean that it would be simple to have a block of related issues, since the bodies of nodes and comments wouldn't have to be parsed and analyzed.