1540245 - Quicksearch no longer jumps to aliased bug

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(bugzilla.mozilla.org :: Search, defect, P2)

Description

[Kartikaya Gupta (email:[e-mail])]

It used to be that going to e.g. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=dynamic-toolbar would redirect you straight to bug 716403 (which has the alias "dynamic-toolbar"). This no longer works; instead it takes you to a search results page which lists nothing, because that bug is resolved and the search only searches unresolved bugs. Even if you try going to an unresolved aliased bug, like https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=wr-68 it will just display the single result instead of redirecting you to the bug.

I have a keyword bookmark for this URL which is pretty broken as a result of this.

Comment 1

[Dylan Hardison [:dylan] (he/him)]

This did come up in review. I think we could reasonably detect a quicksearch vs. a bookmarked case.

In the interim, replacing /buglist.cgi?quicksearch=ALIAS with /show_bug.cgi?id=ALIAS would work.

Comment 2

[Kohei Yoshino [:kohei]]

Yeah, you don’t have to use quick search to visit a bug with the alias.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=dynamic-toolbar
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=wr-68

We can’t detect if the requests are from bookmarks, unfortunately.

Comment 3

[Dylan Hardison [:dylan] (he/him)]

We could add a hidden param to the quicksearch form on every page, however.

Comment 4

[Kartikaya Gupta (email:[e-mail])]

I can use show_bug.cgi, but now I need two bookmarks (one for searching and one for jumping to bugs) whereas before I just needed one which did The Right Thing always :/

Comment 5

[Dylan Hardison [:dylan] (he/him)]

well, let me see about a little patch can make both use cases work.

Comment 6

[Kohei Yoshino [:kohei]]

People could bookmark URLs with the hidden param, so it probably won’t work. To be honest, I’d like to remove quick search.

Comment 7

[Kartikaya Gupta (email:[e-mail])]

Also: the https://bugzil.la/ URL shortener relied on this same functionality. That is, going to https://bugzil.la/dynamic-toolbar would jump you to the aliased bug but now it goes to a search result listing with no results. I'm pretty sure links like these are littered around the web and are now broken.

Comment 8

[Dylan Hardison [:dylan] (he/him)]

kats is in the top 10 for performing searches, so I'm inclined to at least try out a solution.

Comment 9

[Kohei Yoshino [:kohei]]

bugzil.la not owned nor managed by Mozilla so we cannot guarantee it always works.

Comment 10

[Emma Humphries ☕️🎸🧞‍♀️✨ (she/they) [:emceeaich] (Pacific Time) use needinfo]

Do we want to go to disambiguation page if we hit an alias?

Comment 11

[Kohei Yoshino [:kohei]]

This has already been solved by backing out my PR for Bug 1527053. I’ll fix the other bug by adding a hidden param like redirect_alias=0 to the quick search form.