332471 - bugzilla needs an option to learn a user's bug filing habits and present the most commonly used products first

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1473417

(Bugzilla :: Creating/Changing Bugs, enhancement)

Description

[timeless]

This is one of a number of customization bugs.

among the reasons for this is to enable bugzilla to scale to larger numbers of things. In this case, the problem is that an installation may have too many products for anyone to live with.

As it turns out, your average user only files bugs in a limited set of products. The simplest solution to this problem (which i expect to extend to other realms later) is to have bugzilla tailor the product chooser to the user.

The specific algorithm to be used is an implementation decission.
Whether to count user's product preferences based on where the user initially filed them, or where they currently live. Here are things I can imagine using as criteria for counting bugs:
Whether to count all bugs the user has filed
Whether to count only open bugs.
Whether to ignore bugs that are older than a certain amount of time.
Whether to ignore bugs that haven't been touched in a certain amount of time.
Whether to ignore bugs that the user hasn't been touched in a certain amount of time.

Other things to consider:
* There should probably be a minimum threshold before switching to giving the user their custom view of the product chooser. I'm not sure if that should be 5 bugs or 10 or ....
* It might not be a good idea for the list to change constantly, perhaps it should update weekly. Realistically after a user has filed 20 or so bugs, it probably won't fluctuate very often.

* I think for bmo, I'd simply choose to enable it for anyone w/ editbugs.

Of some interest, justdave already implemented this in response to my musings. so i'm hoping we can take his implementation :).

Comment 1

[Kohei Yoshino [:kohei]]

This has already been implemented in BMO and shipping with Bugzilla 6.0.