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It took a while, but now Launchpad finally allows users to edit their comments on questions, bug reports and merge proposal pages.

The first request for this feature dates back from 2007. Since then, Launchpad increased a lot in terms of new features, and the other priorities took precedence over that request, but the request was still more than valid. More recently, we managed to bump the priority of this feature, and now we have it: users are now allowed to edit their comments on Launchpad answers, bugs and merge proposals!

This has been available in the API for a few days already, but today we finally released the fresh new pencil icon in the top-right corner of your messages. Once you click it, the message is turned into a small form that allows you to edit your message content.

For messages that were edited before, it is possible to see old versions of that edited message by clicking the “last edit …” link, also at the top of the message.

In case you introduce sensitive information by mistake in your comment and need to remove it from the message history after editing it, you can always use the API to do so. We plan to add a remove button to the message’s revision history UI soon, to make this work easier.

The Launchpad team is proud of this new feature, and we hope that it will be useful for everyone! Let us know if you have any feedback!

This entry was posted by Thiago F Pappacena on Friday, May 28th, 2021 at 6:26 pm and is filed under General. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.