74258 - my favorite bug section (Bookmark feature)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 372023

(Bugzilla :: User Accounts, enhancement)

Description

[Chu Alan]

i think it's better to have a "my favorite bugs" section and we can add/delete
any bugs (from my own or from any other else) from it.

Comment 1

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Hmm, so you're suggesting to create a new page within bugzilla that would have a 
saved list of bugs that you want to watch?  And you said "I think it would be 
better"...  better than what?

Comment 2

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

The way I would do this would be to have personal keywords, and you could define
a "favourite" keyword if you liked.

Comment 3

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

-> Bugzilla product

Comment 4

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

I forget the bug number, but Jake is working on a new watching system that will
let you watch multiple types of objects within bugzilla (instead of just other
users like now) ...

This could be accomplished by letting you watch a bug. :)

Comment 5

[Jacob Steenhagen]

I think personal keywords that you could watch (as suggested by Matty) is a more
robust solution, but I'll mark a dependancy on bug 73665 for now (which is the
new watching system).

Comment 6

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

Not sure if we want to call it 'favorites' - Voting for bugs is almost a way of
picking your favorites.

The bugs I want to watch are not my favorites per se, but I do want to add bugs
to a list.  The bugs I want to watch generally are bugs that i want to return to
every X number of days because:

- If it's not patched in a few days by the assignee, I'll look at it.
- I request more information from a reporter for the nth time and if they don't
respond in X days, I'll resolve the bug Invalid or WFM.
- A bug which was broken for a long time suddenly works.  I want to track it in
a few days to see if returns.

etc...

I'm not sure that "Favorites" is the right word for this; and the fact that it
sounds like IE doesn't help either.  "Bookmarked Bugs" or something.

We also should NOT automatically email on these.  I may not want email on these
bugs.  But it should be an option to [x] automatically CC me on bugs in my
bookmarks.

Comment 7

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

I assume in Jake's system you can watch an individual keyword, so you wouldn't
have to receive emails.

Comment 8

[mental]

Expanding on comment #6, this could possibly be exposed via static lists (bug
95722), and there could be a top-level page listing a user-defined set of lists
(favorites, WFM, etc.) as well as saved queries.  It would be cool to allow
multiple sort options on these lists, and even cooler if Jake's watch system
works with them.

Comment 9

[Webmaster33]

I think "Bookmark feature" is better name for it.
It would be very important to have such Bookmark feature.

Let me explain a bit my imagination about these features & differences between them:
- Watch should watch several bugs or queries and you get noticed (in e-mail or
ther ways) when something is changed.
- Stored Query is storing special search parameters to be able to reproduce the
same a search result as earlier. Advantage of it is that the Stored Queries are
available in a downdrop list on the Query page.
- Bookmark page should store bugs or queries (they can be added, deleted, or the
url of them can be modified) you can select some of them to Watch them, and get
noticed (in e-mail or ther ways) when something is changed. 
As you see it does not differ very much from Watch, just by ability of storing
bugs & queries without to watch changes of them.
Also you can add or delete Bookmarked items (bugs or queries) to the Stored
Queries downdrop list(for the Query page).

So my opinion is that the main name should be "Bookmark" feature, and "Watch"
should be only a special feature of the "Bookmark" feature to watch changes.

Would be fine to have it, because nobody can keep in my 20-30 or even hundreds
of bugs which are important for the developer or user.

I suggest somebody (the bug reporter or an admin) to change the "Summary:"
content to "my favorite bug section (Bookmark feature)" so those users who are
searching for bookmark by summary also find it.

Comment 10

[Prognathous]

Appending "(Bookmark feature)" to the summary (as suggested in comment #9). This
should make it easier to find.

I currently use a web-based notepad to bookmark bugs of special interest, but a
built in bugzilla feature would be much more convenient.

Prog.

Comment 11

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

*** Bug 114419 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12

[Krishna Sethuraman]

I'm currently (mis-)using 'Votes' for this so I can have a list of bugs I'm
personally interested in --

* For Firefox, to see when I can verify something marked as 'Fixed' has really
been fixed in the next nightly.
* For KDE, so I can check that something marked as fixed a while back is
actually working properly under my Linux install.
* In general, as a handy reminder list of 'issues I'm interested in'.

In my case, I wanted to watch bug 215243 (which I can't vote for).  So this bug
gets my vote instead.

Comment 13

[Webmaster33]

Why was target milestone removed?

Comment 14

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

This actually works fairly well now, with tags. We do need to improve the UI for tags, though.