Description of problem: Quick Search (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=...) sorts the results by the bug number (ID). This often puts irrelevant bugs on top. As an example try searching for "cannot commit to disk" which is an error message given by Anaconda in F11. Bugzilla finds 37 bugs, ranging from 170893 to 506930. The most relevant bug (bug 491754 titled "DeviceError: cannot commit to disk sda after 5 attempts") is near to the end of the list. Since it contains the exact phrase, I'd like to see it on top. OTOH, if I use Google Search (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/query.cgi?format=google), it puts the most relevant bug correctly right on top. Proposed solution: Please consider making the Quick Search function use the Google Search (at least when no special features are used in the query (those documented in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/page.cgi?id=quicksearch.html)).
Hi Michal, If you click on the ID column label in the search result it should reverse the search for you. I hope this helps. Noura
Noura, thank you for the suggestion. Unfortunately, reversing the list is not a solution. It may help a bit in this specific case, where the most relevant bug was almost at the bottom, but generally it can be anywhere in the middle. There needs to be a more clever algorithm to determine the relevancy of a search result (such as what the Google Search does).
Red Hat Bugzilla is now using version 3.4 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 3.4.
Red Hat has now upgraded to Bugzilla 3.6 and this bug will now be reassigned to that version. It would be helpful to the Bugzilla Development Team if this bug is verified to still be an issue with the latest version. If it is no longer an issue, then feel free to close, otherwise please comment that it is still a problem and we will try to address the issue as soon as we can. Thanks Bugzilla Development Team
(In reply to comment #0) > Proposed solution: > Please consider making the Quick Search function use the Google Search (at > least when no special features are used in the query (those documented in > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/page.cgi?id=quicksearch.html)). This isn't practical since (a) Google does not crawl the site in real time and (b) Google does not crawl private bugs. -- simon