Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 142908
bugs you care about may disappear from My Front Page
Last modified: 2013-06-23 22:58:53 EDT
Description of problem: It seems dangerous to me the way that bugs move off of "My Front Page" without you doing it yourself, or necessarily realizing it. For instance, if a bug is closed and you don't notice and don't agree that it should be closed, it could drop off your radar because it's not on your front page. Similarly if bugs are reassigned, even if you maybe still care about the bug and want to make sure it's fixed, it drops out of your list. I'd prefer to make that decision myself, but this may be only because I have a special role here representing Intel, and I am involved in fewer bugs than other people so I wouldn't mind a bit more manual work to safeguard me from dropping things. Here's how I would probably implement what I'm talking about: each time My Front Page is generated, according to whatever rules, save the list of bugs that were included in a "cache" of bugs grgustaf is watching. Then next time the page is generated, diff the new list with the old list, and any bugs that are no longer on the list get added to a new section at the bottom, "Watched Bugs" or some more clever, sensible description. For a bug to leave that section, I have to select a checkbox by each bug to be cleared and submit the form; at that time it is removed from the cache. This probably also implies a "Watch This Bug" feature on each bug, similar to the cc: list feature. I definitely think this would be a big help for anyone like me who comes at bugzilla from a third party point of view. It is possible to achieve this safety by adding yourself to cc: lists and carefully monitoring every bug mail, which I am able to do with my somewhat low volume, but I'm not sure I can keep that up forever.
I seem to encounter the same problem, as the set of active bugs shown by old style bugzilla and the current beta version are *different*. For example, bug #55223 does not appear in the "active" section of the new style "My front page" any more, whereas it is still displayed under "My bugs" of old style bugzilla. I do not even know why it has disappeared, unless it is simply a bug!
I have done some fixes/improvements to the frontpage recently. Can you verify for me that the problem still exists?
No, bug #55223 does still not appear in the "active" section of the new style "My front page". The old style "My bugs" page is not accessible any more, but the bug status is "assigned", so it should still be visible which it is not.
Ok, I have managed to find old Bz. The only visible bug #127574 is qualified as "NEEDINFO", bugs #55223 and #130541 which are not displayed belong to the category "ASSIGNED".
The problem I was talking about at least is still there. For instance, today katzj marked my bug 160216 as "closed/notabug". This is because it _may_ be a hardware problem, but that's not certain. If I hadn't specifically looked for it, I might have missed that it got closed, which makes Bugzilla much less useful for me. I can't be sure I won't forget about issues if I rely on it. (Now I did get cc:'d and eventually would have seen that.) What I would like is another section on My Front Page, for bugs that otherwise would disappear from the page, but I'm not sure it's reasonable to implement that feature so feel free to close this bug.
Bug #158638 (bugs that ASSIGNED disappear from the front page) appears to be related to this one.
Another similar case is ON_QA bugs disappearing from "My Front Page": bug #430383.
Red Hat Bugzilla is now using version 3.2 of the Bugzilla codebase and therefore this bug will need to be re-verified against the new release. With the updated code this bug may no longer be relevant or may have been fixed in the new code. Updating bug version to 3.2.