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>Current searching tools in Bugzilla include the querying mechanism,<br>
special summary reports and dependency trees. This message is about new<br>
facilities.<br>
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1. General Summary Reports<br>
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For some time now it has been apparent to me that the query bug list<br>
leaves a little to be desired in its linear nature. There is a need to<br>
have categorised subsets, and counts of each category. If you don't<br>
believe me, how about these facilities already in place or which people<br>
have asked for:<br>
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Most Doomed Reports - Categorised On Assignee, Shows and Counts Number<br>
of Bugs For Each Assignee<br>
Bug #15806 (Most Voted For Bugs) - Categorised On Product, Shows Bugs<br>
Voters Most Want Fixed<br>
Bug #9789 (BugAThon Tracking Page) - Categorised On Developer (Subset),<br>
Counts Number of Bugs<br>
Bug #9409 and #9411 - The desire to be able to report on more subsets.<br>
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Hopefully you can see the gist of what is desired here. It's a general<br>
reporting mechanism.<br>
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This mechanism lets you choose the subset of bugs to operate on (like<br>
query), let's you categorise them, possibly along with subcategories and<br>
counts the number of bugs within each category. It might or might not<br>
show the actual bugs themselves, and it might limit the number of bugs<br>
within a category, or categories to report on.<br>
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I'm further sure that many applications of this mechanism would only be<br>
recognised once it was implemented.<br>
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The general summary reports bug is at<br>
"http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12282".<br>
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2. Related Bugs<br>
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It would be nice to have a field where you could enter other bugs<br>
related to the current bug - it would be handy for navigation and<br>
possibly even finding duplicates. See<br>
"http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12286".<br>
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3. Column Specification Support<br>
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Currently query seems to get what columns to report on from whatever the<br>
user last used. This doesn't work well for "prepackaged queries", where<br>
you followed a link. You can probably add a column by specifying a sort<br>
column, but this is difficult and suboptimal.<br>
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Furthermore, I find that when I want to add a column to a query, it's<br>
usually a one off and I would prefer it to go away for the next query. <br>
Hence, it would be nice to specify the columns that appear on the query<br>
(and general summary report) pages. The default query mechanism should<br>
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This proposal lives at<br>
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