Better Searching

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# 6.2. Better Searching

Current searching tools in Bugzilla include the querying mechanism,
special summary reports and dependency trees. This message is about new
facilities.
1. General Summary Reports
For some time now it has been apparent to me that the query bug list
leaves a little to be desired in its linear nature. There is a need to
have categorised subsets, and counts of each category. If you don't
believe me, how about these facilities already in place or which people
have asked for:
Most Doomed Reports - Categorised On Assignee, Shows and Counts Number
of Bugs For Each Assignee
Bug #15806 (Most Voted For Bugs) - Categorised On Product, Shows Bugs
Voters Most Want Fixed
Bug #9789 (BugAThon Tracking Page) - Categorised On Developer (Subset),
Counts Number of Bugs
Bug #9409 and #9411 - The desire to be able to report on more subsets.
Hopefully you can see the gist of what is desired here. It's a general
reporting mechanism.
This mechanism lets you choose the subset of bugs to operate on (like
query), let's you categorise them, possibly along with subcategories and
counts the number of bugs within each category. It might or might not
show the actual bugs themselves, and it might limit the number of bugs
within a category, or categories to report on.
I'm further sure that many applications of this mechanism would only be
recognised once it was implemented.
The general summary reports bug is at
"http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12282".
2. Related Bugs
It would be nice to have a field where you could enter other bugs
related to the current bug - it would be handy for navigation and
possibly even finding duplicates. See
"http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12286".
3. Column Specification Support
Currently query seems to get what columns to report on from whatever the
user last used. This doesn't work well for "prepackaged queries", where
you followed a link. You can probably add a column by specifying a sort
column, but this is difficult and suboptimal.
Furthermore, I find that when I want to add a column to a query, it's
usually a one off and I would prefer it to go away for the next query.
Hence, it would be nice to specify the columns that appear on the query
(and general summary report) pages. The default query mechanism should
be able to let you specify your default columns.
This proposal lives at
"http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12284".

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