Open Bug 1533610 Opened 5 years ago Updated 1 month ago

Search both open and closed bugs by default

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(bugzilla.mozilla.org :: Search, enhancement)

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(Reporter: kohei, Unassigned)

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(Keywords: bmo-ux, bugzilla-search)

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One of the most frustrating issues in Bugzilla search is the difficulty in finding closed bugs, according to my interview with the DevTools team, quick Twitter survey, direct feedback to me and my own experience. A bug closed even 1 minute ago won’t show up in your search results, which is certainly confusing. I’ll introduce a quick open/closed bug filter that can be seen on GitHub, but the issue itself can be solved without having to wait for the new search results page implemented:

  • Advanced Search page: Deselect --- in the Resolution field by default
  • Quick Search : Remove the Status from the default criteria

Search results are sorted by Status by default, so you’ll still see open bugs at the top of the page.

Assignee: nobody → kohei.yoshino
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Keywords: bugzilla-search

(In reply to Kohei Yoshino [:kohei] (Bugzilla UX) (FxSiteCompat) from comment #0)

One of the most frustrating issues in Bugzilla search is the difficulty in finding closed bugs, according to my interview with the DevTools team, quick Twitter survey and my personal experience. A bug closed even 1 minutes ago won’t show up in your search results, which is certainly confusing. I’ll introduce a quick open/closed bug filter that can be seen on GitHub, but the issue itself can be solved without having to wait for the new search results page implemented:

  • Advanced Search page: Deselect --- in the Resolution field by default
  • Quick Search : Remove the Status from the default criteria

Search results are sorted by Status by default, so you’ll still see open bugs at the top of the page.

For quicksearch, what if you populate the quicksearch field with "ALL " by default?

(In reply to Dylan Hardison [:dylan] (he/him) from comment #1)

For quicksearch, what if you populate the quicksearch field with "ALL " by default?

Maybe people don’t understand the magic keyword, so I’m changing the code itself.

Can you please make this a user preference. Whilst it would be great to toggle between open/closed/all when viewing search results, my most common use-case is to search for open bugs, so it would be quite frustrating if I had to change this every time I did a search.

The open/closed/all filtering state will be stored locally so you won’t have to change that every time.

(In reply to Kohei Yoshino [:kohei] (Bugzilla UX) (FxSiteCompat) from comment #4)

The open/closed/all filtering state will be stored locally so you won’t have
to change that every time.

That sounds helpful, but I'd be interested to see how it works in practice, as compared with a user setting. Could still be annoying if you mostly use one type but occasionally switch to the other (as it forces you to switch back on your next search). However, it may turn out that if the new UI responds quickly enough, that is not such a bother.

If the list update is slow, then a stored setting would be preferable (perhaps with one of the options being 'remember last used').

(In reply to Kohei Yoshino [:kohei] (Bugzilla UX) (FxSiteCompat) from comment #0)

Search results are sorted by Status by default, so you’ll still see open
bugs at the top of the page.

Also, just spotted this comment in the original description.

Shouldn't they default to being sorted by relevancy?

Status: ASSIGNED → NEW
No longer blocks: 1529362
Depends on: 1529362
Assignee: kohei.yoshino → nobody
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