malone search broken, needs search by submitter feature

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

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On 28 Jan, 2006, at 1:05 PM, Michael Wardle wrote:
> ...
> I found it very hard to find a bug I had reported in Bugzilla after it
> had been migrated into Malone.

Searching in Malone currently isn't nearly as powerful as searching in  
Bugzilla. However, we hope to change that over the coming months.

If you have time to read the draft design for improving the search, I'd  
be interested in your comments.  
<https://wiki.launchpad.canonical.com/MaloneSearch>

> I would usually search by submitter=<my mail address> in Bugzilla, but
> Malone doesn't appear to support this.

Right, this is bug 1006.
<https://launchpad.net/products/malone/+bug/1006>

> It would be a very useful addition.

I've proposed that advanced operators like this use the name:value  
syntax popularized by AltaVista and Google, rather than the name=value  
syntax used by Bugzilla. So for this example, you'd be able to enter  
reporter:michael at endbracket.net, or reporter:michael-endbracket (your  
Launchpad ID). Does this seems reasonable?

> I would also try to search by the package the bug is reported in, but  
> I can't find where to do this either!
> ...

I've proposed that you be able to do this with an operator like  
package:ubuntu/xserver-xorg-input-keyboard.

In theory you can list the bugs reported on a single package right now,  
by going to the page for that package  
<https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-input- 
keyboard>, and clicking "Bugs"  
<https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-input- 
keyboard/+bugs>.

In practice your bug doesn't show up there, for the reason Matthew East  
mentioned: we don't show "Needs Info" bugs when we should. This should  
be fixed today, and the fix should appear on launchpad.net sometime in  
the next two weeks.

Cheers
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Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/
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