Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 144267
external bug reference requires additional boolean search fields
Last modified: 2013-09-02 02:03:51 EDT
With the addition of the external bug reference, users now need a way to find all bugs pertaining to a particular bug system AND specific bug numbers in another bug system. We talked about this but I never filed it yet. I think we decided that we need 2 values to search on: 1) External Bug System * 2) External Bug ID * the external bug system would be perfect as a drop-down list, however the boolean search doesn't allow for that. This means the user will need to be able to find what to enter (either the title for the bug system, or the URL). Perhaps we create a new column in the external_bugzilla table called: code VARCHAR(10) UNIQ This will allow you to enter a character code to assign to each system (similar to the values discussed on an internal mailing list about the MZ#123124, XM#123112, LTC#23412 format where the codes would be MZ, XM, LTC respectively). This code would then be used as the search value in the boolean query "External Bug System Code." We still of course need a way for users to find out what the code is in order to use it (or they can just do a showbug.cgi and look at the values). The alternative is to have "External Bug System" just to a string comparison on the description column in the external_bugzilla table. Thoughts?
(In reply to comment #0) > 1) External Bug System * > 2) External Bug ID > Agreed. > The alternative is to have "External Bug System" just to a string comparison on > the description column in the external_bugzilla table. I kind of like the last option you stated. Not because it would be easier (it would actually) but because it seems more intuitive anyway. For instance you just select search on External Bug System, then choose the search type of Sounds Like or similar, and then type in Gnome, Samba, or Redhat in the text field. Otherwise if we used unique identifiers, what would they be? b.r.c for Red Hat's Bugzilla and b.g.o for Gnomes'? Open to suggestions on sensible naming.
your solution sounds good to me
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.