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You might want to add as a bug if it is not in the issue tracker already. Still not a guarantee it will get fixed (resource allocation, etc.) but more likely than here.

I'm not clear on the status of this stuff. The comment from Dave on the issue tracker implied that some tweaks were achievable within the time and funding budget available for the work, but that others might have to wait for a subsequent release. Tim, who as far as I'm aware, has led on this work, has made some changes as a response to previous comments.

But it looks like further work has been halted - presumably until some additional resource becomes available.

Which, as noted in my initial comment, seems to me to be a real shame, given that presumably the whole rationale behind creating the new UI was to make CiviCase more accessible to more not-tech users.

I don't think it classes as a bug, rather it is an implementation oversight that, in my view at least, significantly detracts from what is otherwise really good, and may well result in users defining case types that then don't work as expected, or possibly don't work at all. Personally I can't see the logic in investing in the creation of the new UI if the product of that work is then going to be released in what I can only describe as an unfinished state, but I guess maybe that's just me. Can I reconcile this with the recently published vision statement: "We create high quality, reliable, easy to use software"? I'm not sure.

Donald, I'm sure it would be better if I were to raise more money to get more resources, but that simply isn't realistic. I already give - and will continue to give - a lot of time to the project. I don't have the capacity to go out fundraising in addition to what I'm already doing. And as to the ease or otherwise of the tweaks I'm afraid I have no idea. That's not what I do.