129076 - fields prefixed with "bug_" are confusing

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 200837

(Bugzilla :: Query/Bug List, enhancement, P4)

Description

[Thomas Thurman]

In the query form, there are some fields that are prefixed with "bug_":

 *  bug_file_loc
 *  bug_severity
 *  bug_status

This is confusing; there's no obvious reason why some fields should be "foo" 
and others should be "bug_foo". For example, a user here, having recently 
found "resolution" to search on a bug's resolution, was looking for "status" to 
search on the status field.

Comment 1

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

Yeah, and bug_file_loc should probably be more descriptive too.

Comment 2

[mental]

Cleaning this up will magically clean up some of the things I wanted changed in
xml.cgi.  For that purpose, it would help if all tags were unique and
semi-descriptive.  We'll need to change bugzilla.dtd after this, too.

Comment 3

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

I don't see this as being particularly easy if I understand this properly.  In
particular, this would break bookmarks and stored queries, although we could add
backward compatibility cruft.

If we didn't care about bookmarks (and we have a specific bookmarking feature on
enter_bug.cgi, so we should), an implementation bug #110007 could change stored
queries over to referring to field ID rather than name, without needing the cruft.

Comment 4

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

This is kind of like bug #200837.

Comment 5

[Thomas Thurman]

That's true.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 200837 ***

Comment 6

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

clearing target on worksforme/duplicate/invalid so they'll show up as untriaged
if they get reopened