Currently the maximum length of a task title is defined by
MariaDB [phabricator_maniphest]> SHOW COLUMNS FROM phabricator_maniphest.maniphest_task WHERE Field = "title"; +-------+----------+------+-----+---------+-------+ | Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra | +-------+----------+------+-----+---------+-------+ | title | longtext | NO | MUL | NULL | | +-------+----------+------+-----+---------+-------+
A task title is supposed to summarize a task. For long novels, there is the task description.
I don't want to scroll meters/feet down to reach the task description or to find the next comment after an incredibly long "user renamed title from verylongone to shortone" entry.
Downstream ticket: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T338906