719838 - Make it possible to search for the user you are looking for quickly and easily

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

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

Description

[Kadir Topal [:atopal]]

The objective is: Be able to select the user you are looking for quickly and easily.

requirements: 
1. Match user name or display name, user should never have to know which is which
2. Show both user name and display name to minimize mix-ups
3. Show only relevant matches. 
4. Show the actual match on top as often as possible.
5. Cover edge cases by direct input

I think we are hitting 1 and 2 today, but missing the rest. 5 is easy, just allow for free input.

re 3: 
* Discard all users who have been inactive for more than a month. Karma includes measurements for inactivity already, maybe we can lift that from there. I think we can assume that those accounts are on hold and rarely relevant. This should reduce the total number of users on the list to less than 15.000

re 4: this is much, much more difficult:
a. Match full names directly. When I type "smo" that user should be selected not "smorisi"
b. Give priority to people in the contributors group
c. Give priority to those I have contacted in the past, prioritized by the frecency (frequency and recency)
d. Give priority to those who have contacted me in the past.
e. Give priority to people who have posted something within the last week

The weighting of this will be rather difficult, but I assume that with 3 implemented and a and b in effect we might not even need c,d and e.

Comment 1

[Andrew Truong [:feer56] [:andrewtruong] [:atruong]]

I'm assuming that this has been tackled by the community hub.