As I was trapsing (sic) through the bug reports during the last Gentoo Bugday, I noticed in Bugzilla that there's no way to search for bugs that have not been commented on since they were entered. I understand that the way it should work in an ideal world is that you'd be able to search through bug reports from a particular date on that have a state of NEW, but there are many bugs in the system that have months of activity and still have that state assigned to them. What I'd like to see is one of two things: 1) Have a search function that lets you search on an upper and lower bounds of a bug comments. That way, you can only pull up bugs that have 1-3 comments attached to them, or something like that. Since all bugs are going to have at least one comment, there could be a search preset that works similar to the "View Unanswered Posts" link in the forums, by only searching for bugs that have 1 comment attached to them (or some other suitably small number). 2) Make an additional activity of Bugday that somebody (or multiple somebodies) could go through all of the bugs marked as NEW and review them for activity. Any bug assigned to a developer or team could be changed to ASSIGNED. This does not seem to be happening on a consistent basis. For an example, see http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11272 which was assigned to the Portage Team, yet still marked as NEW. I found twenty-four other bugs similar to that covering just from the beginning of the database to 2003-12-31. In addition, assigned bugs with any activity on them by one of the team members could be flagged as UNCONFIRMED. The point of the exercise is to be able to determine bug activity based on the status of the bug, which is most likely the intent of the field in the first place. I have no problem helping with the effort attached to item #2, but considering the scope of such a project, and the fact that we seem to have more than 100,000 bugs in the system (over 7300 of them marked NEW), I might need a little help. In a true sense of poetic irony that can only be appreciated by reading this enhancement request, I'm forced to create this report as NEW since it only gives me the option of NEW and UNCONFIRMED, even though it's automatically being assigned to jforman@gentoo.org. I'm beside myself....:)
I definitely think this is something for upstream. The bug assignation logic in #2 is something that would have to be hacked into the bugzilla CGI, something I am admittedly not equipped to do. As for issue #1, that is definitely also something for the search CGI. (upstream) Sorry it took so long for me to comment on this. -Jeffrey
