35924 - Fuzzy search when an invalid field value is entered

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Bugzilla :: Bugzilla-General, enhancement, P5)

Description

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

In situations where something entered is not found in a list of possibilities
(email addresses, keywords, etc), it would be nice if a fuzzy search could find
a list of what the user could have meant and ask:

Keyword dontest not found.  Perhaps you mean DONTTEST, or DONTTEST2?

where the possibilities are hyperlinks that allow the user to choose an
alternative.

In cases where there are multiple failures you would get one screen after
another (this would occur rarely anyway).

Comment 1

[Stephan Niemz]

moving to real milestones...

Comment 2

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

Moving to new Bugzilla product ...

Comment 3

[Adam Katz]

could also spellcheck the query string.  

I was going to suggest a google site search but it appears bugzilla's contents
are not fully viewable to google; see a search for "browser" for example:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=browser+site%3Abugzilla.mozilla.org&btnG=Google+Search

Comment 4

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Reassigning all of my "future" targetted bugs to indicate that I'm not presently
working on them, and someone else could feel free to work on them.

Comment 5

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Reassigning all of my "future" targetted bugs to indicate that I'm not presently
working on them, and someone else could feel free to work on them. (sorry for
the spam if you got this twice, it didn't take right the first time)

Comment 6

[Eyal Rozenberg]

This seems a more accurate summary.

Comment 7

[Frédéric Buclin]

16 years later, there is nobody in the CC list (besides justdave who CC'ed himself (by accident?) while doing mass-triage), no votes, and only one related comment -> wontfix.