On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 08:52:18PM -0300, Horst von Brand wrote:
Mike A. Harris <mharris(a)mharris.ca> wrote:
[...]
> Sure, the system isn't perfect. And the situation you describe is
> entirely feasible. However, I've seen bugs reported in which it is
> perfectly clear that a user has never even attempted to see if there
> was a duplicate, because their subject line or other aspects of their
> bug were almost word for word identical to one or more other bug
> reports, etc.
It would be quite useful to show bugs (perhaps the most recent ones?) for
the selected component. As things stand, you have to go search (select
package, etc; and the search isn't very intuitive as it stands) and if not
found, file a bug (again, select package etc). For me at least (far away in
network terms) this is slow and somewhat irritating.
You can save a query once you're logged in, and it appears as a pseudo-bookmark
at the bottom of each bugzilla page. I create one for kernel for each release,
and use it countless times per day. I only ever use search if I'm looking
for something in particular, like 'bugs pertaining to snd-nm256'.
Dave