Problem
Each reported issue must have a ProblemDescriptor associated with it. This was a requirement, early on, when Project Auditor focused on diagnostics but nowadays, this concept does not apply to all reported issues. In fact, Project Auditor is both a diagnostic as well as general-purpose reporting tool.
The second problem related to descriptors is that they are used to group issues. Unfortunately this is very limiting. It is not possibly to group issues by a different criteria such as filename, area, assembly name or any other arbitrary property.
Solution
This PR removes the need to specify a descriptor when an issue is created. In addition, it introduces a feature that allows the user to group issues by any of the properties of the issue. This implemented using a new dropdown selection:
Here are a couple of example that were not possible before:
Problem Each reported issue must have a ProblemDescriptor associated with it. This was a requirement, early on, when Project Auditor focused on diagnostics but nowadays, this concept does not apply to all reported issues. In fact, Project Auditor is both a diagnostic as well as general-purpose reporting tool.
The second problem related to descriptors is that they are used to group issues. Unfortunately this is very limiting. It is not possibly to group issues by a different criteria such as filename, area, assembly name or any other arbitrary property.
Solution This PR removes the need to specify a descriptor when an issue is created. In addition, it introduces a feature that allows the user to group issues by any of the properties of the issue. This implemented using a new dropdown selection:
Here are a couple of example that were not possible before: