330280 - "All-time Top 100" and "Hot in the last two weeks" Bug Reports Often for Wrong Products

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(bugzilla.mozilla.org :: General, defect)

Description

[David E. Ross]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060130 SeaMonkey/1.0 Mnenhy/0.7.3.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060130 SeaMonkey/1.0 Mnenhy/0.7.3.0

When I go to submit a new bug report, the "All-time Top 100" and "Hot in the last two weeks" bug reports often list bugs for products other than the product for which I'm submitting the report.  For example, if I go to submit a bug report for Thunderbird, the lists include many Mozilla Suite bugs that are not MailNews.    

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:




If the lists were correctly restricted to the product for which the user is about to submit a new bug, it would be easier to search those lists.  This would help reduce the number of redudant "Duplicate" bugs.  

As a workaround, I ignore those lists.  Instead, I do an advanced search on the product -- and usually a select set of components -- for terms I would expect in the summary if the bug I am reporting already exists.

Comment 1

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

This was intentional because there are often bugs in those products which do affect Firefox and Thunderbird.  Filing bugs in either of those products adds in a few other related products into the reports which share back-end components.