Upcoming changes to Bugzilla search defaults

[Gervase Markham]

This is a heads-up that a few of the default parameters on the Bugzilla
query page are about to change. Some of the current defaults encourage
clueless people to run searches which are very resource-intensive, and
slow Bugzilla down for the rest of us. These changes will help to
eliminate that.

The changes are:

- email searching will default to "is" (exact match) rather than
"contains" (substring).
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=173567

- comment text searching will default to "contains the string" rather
than "contains all of the words/strings".
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=173689

To summarise, the new default query will look like this:
http://localhost/bugzilla/query.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&emailassigned_to1=1&emailassigned_to2=1&emailreporter2=1&emailcc2=1&emailqa_contact2=1&order=Importance&emailtype1=exact&emailtype2=exact&long_desc_type=substring

Further in the future, we will be sorting the list of Products by
importance (with Browser and MailNews at the top) and selecting Browser
and MailNews by default (which triggers appropriate filtering on the
Components, Versions and Target Milestone lists.) Again, this is to make
the defaults Do The Right Thing better.
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=173573

Remember, if you have a Bugzilla account and don't like the defaults,
you can always create your own default query using the option at the
bottom of the page.

Gerv

[dwx]

Gervase Markham wrote:

> This is a heads-up that a few of the default parameters on the Bugzilla
> query page are about to change. Some of the current defaults encourage
> clueless people to run searches which are very resource-intensive, and
> slow Bugzilla down for the rest of us. These changes will help to
> eliminate that.
>
> The changes are:
>
> - email searching will default to "is" (exact match) rather than
> "contains" (substring).
> http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=173567
>
> - comment text searching will default to "contains the string" rather
> than "contains all of the words/strings".
> http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=173689
>
> To summarise, the new default query will look like this:
> http://localhost/bugzilla/query.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&emailassigned_to1=1&emailassigned_to2=1&emailreporter2=1&emailcc2=1&emailqa_contact2=1&order=Importance&emailtype1=exact&emailtype2=exact&long_desc_type=substring
>
>
>
> Further in the future, we will be sorting the list of Products by
> importance (with Browser and MailNews at the top) and selecting Browser
> and MailNews by default (which triggers appropriate filtering on the
> Components, Versions and Target Milestone lists.) Again, this is to make
> the defaults Do The Right Thing better.
> http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=173573

It would be nice if someone can post announcements like this to the
Wishlist newsgroup. We should keep track of activities in frequent
request bugs and annouce important changes to the newsgroup. We
might be able to reduce end-user postings there this way.

[Gervase Markham]

dwx wrote:

> It would be nice if someone can post announcements like this to the
> Wishlist newsgroup. We should keep track of activities in frequent
> request bugs and annouce important changes to the newsgroup. We
> might be able to reduce end-user postings there this way.

I'm somewhat confused. What relevance does this have to a Mozilla wishlist?

Gerv