Open Bug 243339 Opened 20 years ago Updated 2 years ago

"search terms" field

Categories

(Bugzilla :: Bugzilla-General, enhancement)

enhancement
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normal

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People

(Reporter: BenB, Unassigned)

Details

It seems to be practice to only search for terms in the summary field. If users
pick the wrong terms, they file dups. This leads some people to add these terms
to the summary of the old bug. However, this approaches adding all synonyms to
the summary and almost all cases clutters the summary field unnecessarily,
making it much harder for me to mentally parse the summary in bugmail, plus the
subject field is of limited width anyways. IMO, the summary should be concise:
short and clear.

A better solution would be to add a bug field "search terms". These alternative
terms could be added there, and whenever the summary is searched, these search
terms are included. The summary can stay concise.
Reassigning bugs that I'm not actively working on to the default component owner
in order to try to make some sanity out of my personal buglist.  This doesn't
mean the bug isn't being dealt with, just that I'm not the one doing it.  If you
are dealing with this bug, please assign it to yourself.
Assignee: justdave → general
QA Contact: mattyt-bugzilla → default-qa

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