I know I've seen this bug before
I've spent the last couple days catching up on bug traige. Triage often leads to one of those moments where I think, "I know I've seen this bug before." I could go through the normal search page on Launchpad, looking for recently changed or newest bugs, but I usually don't do this. The search form feels slow and heavyweight when I just want something to nudge my brain about a bug I know I've seen before.
The "Report a bug" page for a project on Launchpad features a duplicate search before allowing you to a file a bug. Take the filebug page for malone, the project I work on, for example. This page loads fast for me and has just the "Summary" form input. I usally type a couple words in this "Summary" field and hit enter. Something like "ubuntu bug timeout." The dupe search gives me ten hits quickly, and the bug I'm trying to remember is almost always listed here. I often use the filebug page dupe search for these quick and easy search queries, rather than the normal search page.
I've heard from others that do this, too, but I'm not sure how widely this is known. The filebug page makes a great quick search page. Give it a try if you haven't yet.
Posted by deryck on April 27, 2010
Comments
Jonathan Lange on April 27, 2010 at 3:54 p.m.
Yeah, it's a great thing. Many of us were trying to combine the "find" and "file" bug workflows for "3.0"
AJ on April 27, 2010 at 4:59 p.m.
It still doesn't find words with hyphens in such as "mantis-125" though, you guys really need to work on bug 29227 (and personally I'm not asking for partial word matching, just that you use the SAME definition of a word in both the indexer and the search engine. Your index must currently contain huge numbers of words that can never be matched because the query engine splits them into two or more parts before looking them up in the index).
gmb on April 27, 2010 at 6:07 p.m.
You know, the dupefinder is just a view that takes a field.title GET parameter... if we could find a way to embed that in a bug page we could easily have a "find possible duplicates" function.
deryck on April 28, 2010 at 7:45 a.m.
@gmb I would *love* to be able to fire off the dupe finder from a bug page. Like you say, it's not hard at all. We just need to work out how to do it in the UI. I've heard this request from a few others, too.
@AJ If I only had a nickel for every time I read or heard "you guys really need to work on ..." :-)
AJ on April 28, 2010 at 11:17 a.m.
@deryck Sorry, my bad. I'll see if I can offer a patch for my issue of making the word definitions match, although I have no idea how the Launchpad code is structured or which project(s) to even start looking in for the relevant code. It might speed me up if someone could point me in the right direction, I'm anj on LP...