Bug 41798 – The bug search tool is practically useless

• Product: Gentoo Infrastructure
• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

[Description Sean E Russell 2004-02-16 08:57:12 UTC]

I had a bug to report, so I went looking for similar bug reports, with no results.  So I submitted bug #41783 (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41783).  Almost immediately, I received a "duplicate bug" email, pointing at bug #41569 (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41569).  The summary of the bug report is "kdelibs-3.2.0 fails to emerge, complains about moved  libqt-mt.la"

Certain that I had done a decent search for duplicates before I posted the bug, I went back and looked for bug 41569.

Zaroo bugs found.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Try a search with the terms "kdelibs libqt-mt.la".  It will return zero results.  Try it with just libqt-mt.la.  That'll fail, too.  Both terms are in the summary of bug #41569.

[Comment 1 Benjamin Coles 2004-02-16 15:46:31 UTC]

broken? i'm going to move this to WORKSFORME, at the main page it says please enter ALL followed by some terms... so I did ALL kdelibs and your bug showed up... 

[Comment 2 Sean E Russell 2004-02-16 17:51:52 UTC]

Try it.  Go submit a bug.  Nowhere on the "search for your bug" page does it say anything about "ALL".  Anywhere.

"Step 1 - search for your bug

You need to see if your bug has already been reported. Please don't skip this step. 50% of the bugs filed in Bugzilla are duplicates, and this wastes a lot of our QA engineers' time. 

Check the list of most-frequently-reported bugs below. If your bug isn't there, search Bugzilla by entering two or three of the main words having to do with your bug in this box. For example: pop3 mail or copy paste. "

Notice that last line, where it says "For example: pop3 mail or copy paste".

[Comment 3 Benjamin Coles 2004-02-16 17:58:25 UTC]

sorry about that, updated that page =)

[Comment 4 Sean E Russell 2004-02-16 19:16:17 UTC]

Thanks.