717038 - Indicate incompatible add-ons from search suggestions

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Search, defect)

Description

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

STR:
- Use Nightly.
- go to AMO
- enter "Bugzilla" into the search box and wait for suggestions to pop up
- note "BugzillaJS" as part of the suggestions.
- Hit enter
- note BugzillaJS is not on the results page.

I presume, the dropdown does not care about compatibility while the results page does, so since Nightly is currently incompatible with BugzillaJS, it shoes up in the former, not the latter list of search results.

Comment 1

[Christopher Van Wiemeersch [:cvan]]

I swore there was already a bug filed for this, but, yes, incompatible results are intentionally shown in the search suggestions results. And we do autodetect your Firefox platform/version to automatically filter results on the search results page.

Without the filters applied, BugzillaJS shows up as expected: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?q=bugzillajs

At the AMO work week we discussed ideas for indicating (in)compatibility from the search suggestions. Thoughts, gkoberger/fligtar?

Somewhat related: maybe it's time to alter the layout to something like rdio's (http://i.imgur.com/Nuwwg.png)?

Comment 2

[Dave Dash [:davedash, :dd] (assign all bugs to mbrandt)]

So given the following assumptions:

* AutoComplete shows things that aren't compatible (sure, why not)
* We auto-filter stuff by default

Then, if I select something, like BugzillaJS that isn't compatible, can't we turn off auto-filtering for that particular search?

Not sure what happens when I click on a result, but instead of just doing a query for BugzillaJS, it could opt to turn off magic filtering.

Comment 3

[Christopher Van Wiemeersch [:cvan]]

(In reply to Dave Dash [:davedash] from comment #2)
> So given the following assumptions:
> 
> * AutoComplete shows things that aren't compatible (sure, why not)
> * We auto-filter stuff by default
> 
> Then, if I select something, like BugzillaJS that isn't compatible, can't we
> turn off auto-filtering for that particular search?

http://i.imgur.com/9NGzJ.png

If you enter "bugzillajs" and select "BugzillaJS" then you are taken to BugzillaJS' details page. If you select "Search add-ons for 'bugzillajs'" then you are taken to the search results page for that *search term* (not the most-likely-to-be-correct add-on): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?q=bugzillajs

Comment 4

[Dave Dash [:davedash, :dd] (assign all bugs to mbrandt)]

Hmm okay, I'm willing to concede that that's reasonable behavior.

Comment 5

[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

Thanks for filing this.  Due to resource constraints we are closing bugs which we won't realistically be able to fix.  If you have a patch that applies to this bug please reopen.

For more info see http://micropipes.com/blog/2014/09/24/the-great-add-on-bug-triage/