I have some suggestions:
1.) Copy the good things out of bboard - and bboard really works...
1.1.) Make the first page of sdm very similar to bboard. You see the title, posting-date, and the author of n-bugs on the first page. In brackets you could see if this bug has already a patch or not.
1.2.) Enable alerts. This way people know that a certain amount of regular visitors of openacs get that bug or the patch immediately. Additionally people can set a specific alert at a certain bug report that interests them.
1.3.) Show all new patches (parallel to show all new answers).
1.4.) Show all bugs that don't have a patch.
2.) Then it would be nice to have a flag at every bug that shows you if that bug has been fixed inside cvs. This way you could at one glance see what is new inside cvs. -- One more thing that is concerning all of ACS: We changed util_convert_plaintext_to_html, because you have to hit the "return" key twice while writing something in a textarea in order to display a new paragraph. Our solution is that every "return" is displayed like a regular new line.
We changed every "p tag" into a "br tag" and split all the numbers after "regsub -all" in half. I wanted to post the code but it messed up everything...
