[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #31364: Order By Description does not work in edit-tags.php

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#31364: Order By Description does not work in edit-tags.php
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 Reporter:  neil_pie      |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  4.2
Component:  Taxonomy      |     Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal        |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch     |     Focuses:
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Changes (by boonebgorges):

 * keywords:  has-patch dev-feedback => has-patch
 * milestone:  Awaiting Review => 4.2


Comment:

 As discussed in Slack:

 - The problem was introduced when edit-tags.php was converted to list
 tables [15491]. The sorting has therefore never worked properly.
 - There was some question surrounding the question of whether most people
 would want this data to be sortable. If you are using sentences to
 describe your terms (as suggested, I think, by the term "description"), it
 probably doesn't make sense to sort alphabetically by 'description'.
 - That being said, it's easy to imagine ways of using the 'description'
 field in a way that would make sort-by-description a useful feature, and
 there's no harm in adding it, so onward we march.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/31364#comment:4>
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