621676 - Update default column list

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Bugzilla :: Query/Bug List, enhancement)

Description

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

I think the default column list needs reconsidering for the 21st century :-) (Inspired by bug 499546).

Terry set it in the original Bugzilla code to: 
"severity", "priority", "platform", "assigned_to", "status", "resolution", "summary"
http://bzr.mozilla.org/bugzilla/trunk/annotate/1972/globals.pl#L337

Today, it is: 
"severity", "priority", "op_sys", "assigned_to", "status", "resolution", "summary"
http://bzr.mozilla.org/bugzilla/trunk/annotate/head:/Bugzilla/Constants.pm#L278

Notice the similarity :-) (The one change was bug 72948, in 2005).

Here is a straw-man suggestion for a better set and ordering, based on the fields I think are most used and most important today:

Product
Component
Assignee
Keywords (or tags when we have them)
Summary
Status
Resolution
Last Changed

Gerv

Comment 1

[Frédéric Buclin]

Keep the bug summary at the very end. Also, I'm not sure how useful the product is. When you look for bugs, you are already supposed to restrict your query to products you are looking for.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is the thing. 10 years ago, everyone used the complex query form, and restricted by product. These days, people type a few words into the search box, Google style, and hit Enter. So they'll get back bugs from many products. Being able to see which are in the right product, and to sort the list by product (when we have column sorting, which b.m.o. already has) makes this much easier.

I'm not too fussed about the order :-) 

Gerv

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Max: do you have a view on this?

Gerv

Comment 4

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

Yeah, I think your suggestion is good with some minor changes:

Product
Component
Assignee
Status
Resolution
Summary
Last Changed

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Attachment: Patch v.1

Matching Max's list.

Gerv

Comment 6

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

Comment on attachment 507207 [details] [diff] [review]
Patch v.1

Looks good to me.

Comment 7

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

It would be nice to have LpSolit sign off on it also, BTW, before we commit.

Comment 8

[Frédéric Buclin]

Comment on attachment 507207 [details] [diff] [review]
Patch v.1

I'm personally more used to have the changed date as the first field, but this is still an improvement over what we have currently. So r=LpSolit

Comment 9

[Marc Schumann [:Wurblzap]]

Comment on attachment 507207 [details] [diff] [review]
Patch v.1

Fwiw, r=Wurblzap

Comment 10

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Committing to: bzr+ssh://bzr.mozilla.org/bugzilla/trunk/
modified Bugzilla/Constants.pm
Committed revision 7679.

Gerv