877895 - Add links to queries for crash signatures in show_bug.cgi

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(bugzilla.mozilla.org :: User Interface, enhancement)

Description

[Liz Henry (:lizzard)]

If there are crash signatures associated with a bug, each signature could have a link next to it that goes to a query to browse other bugs with that crash signature.

This is fairly minor but is a streamline for searching that may help people who are working on crash bugs.

There isn't a whole lot of room in the UI but maybe just under "Crash Signature" to the left of the text box that lists the crash signature texts, there could be "Browse" links simiilar to the ones for components.

Comment 1

[:glob ✱]

people frequently search on many bugzilla fields - why should the crash-signature field get its own link, and not others?

this sounds like it would be more suitable for a browser extension/greasemonkey script rather than an addition to the ui for all bugzilla users.

Comment 2

[Scoobidiver (away)]

If you want to know other related crashes, you click a crash ID usually in the description field and scroll down to Related Bugs.
If you want to add this information automatically, use the See Also field for related bugs that are not in the Depends On and Block fields. But you have the risk they are in two locations if you fill in those fields later.

Comment 3

[Liz Henry (:lizzard)]

(In reply to Byron Jones ‹:glob› from comment #1)
> people frequently search on many bugzilla fields - why should the
> crash-signature field get its own link, and not others?
> 
Because I noticed this one and had the idea :)   But, yes, good point. It might be useful at some point to think about crash bug triage as one of the possible roles in bugzilla (that will have a custom bug/list view )

Comment 4

[Robert Kaiser]

What would actually be more useful would be to have links to the Socorro report/list pages for the signatures, e.g. https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/list?signature=ScanRope (and that BTW has a tab that links all bugs connected to that signature).

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

+1 to kairo's idea

Comment 6

[Liz Henry (:lizzard)]

glob, what do you think of kairo's idea? I could file a new bug for it or we could reopen this one.

Comment 7

[David Lawrence [:dkl]]

(In reply to Liz Henry :lizzard from comment #6)
> glob, what do you think of kairo's idea? I could file a new bug for it or we
> could reopen this one.

Yes, please open a new bug. I have an idea on how this could be implemented.

dkl