On Wed, 13 May 2009, Kevin Kofler wrote:
Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
Those bugz URLs would be a hell of alot more useful if they skipped bugs marked 'closed' by default - make it optional to show them if desired. It just doesn't scale currently for packages with 1000's of closed bugs :-(
I disagree. IMHO hiding closed bugs by default is the most annoying bug/misfeature of Bugzilla and a few other bug trackers. It leads to people filing duplicates because they don't see that their issue already got fixed (they just don't have the fix yet for whatever reason), was found not to be a valid bug or was found to be an issue elsewhere (upstream/downstream/in third-party software/wherever).
Showing recently (think of "last 3-6 months" or maybe even "for currently maintained distro versions") closed bugs might indeed help avoiding gazillion dupes on some occasions but having to stare at all the closed bugs since Fedora Core 1 era by default serves little purpose IMO.
- Panu -