[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC Bugzilla interaction guide for devs & editbugs users

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

Jeroen Roovers posted on Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:32:38 +0200 as excerpted:

> If the reason you propose this is visibility, then maybe we should make
> the quicksearch option include more than just open bugs. I've thought
> about having UPSTREAM/DUPLICATE/INVALID added so that bugzilla users can
> more easily discover whether a bug was already reported and was deemed
> fixed, a duplicate of another bug or canonically invalid.

I've wondered why quick-search didn't do ALL by default, myself.

Bugzilla's advanced search is quite difficult for users to get right (I 
never seem to, tho it may be konqueror's scripting or some such, so I use 
quick-search and either specify version or start from the bottom and work 
backward as far as I believe reasonable), so I presume most use the quick 
search nearly exclusively.  That being the case, and further, the case 
being that users almost certainly will want ALL, having that NOT the 
default is simply begging for users to miss closed bugs.

So I'd say make ALL the default, and have an ONLYOPEN or some such option, 
instead, to cover the current default for those who actually want/need it.

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