Description of problem: When searching for existing bugs, Bugzilla doesn't consider the OS choice "Unspecified" to be a superset of, say, "Linux", but a disjoint category. When actually filing a new bug, Bugzilla defaults to "Unspecified", but when I search, it defaults to "Linux". This means that recently filed bugs aren't visible which will lead to a lot of duplicate bug reports (I filed one myself today and had to mark it a dupe). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Whatever bugzilla.redhat.com is currently using How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. File a new bug. The OS defaults to "Unspecified". 2. Search for the bug. The OS defaults to "Linux". I don't know how it chooses this, whether it always happens for bugzilla.redhat.com or whether it's doing some kind of User Agent checking. I also don't know why it doesn't make the same OS choice for bug searching as for bug filing. Actual results: Bug doesn't show up. Expected results: "Linux" should be considered a subset of "Unspecified", which would make the bug visible. In addition, maybe the OS choice should be the same for searching as for filing a new bug.
Just checked and the same appears to be true for Hardware "Unspecified".
Thinking about it some more, it makes sense that when filing a bug, the Hardware and OS are Unspecified by default, since one usually doesn't know whether the bug exists on other platforms - there's a good chance, but it's uncertain. And if one searches for bugs on a specific platform, one usually only cares about bugs for that platform. So the current default Hardware and OS values for both searching for and filing bugs make sense. However, when searching for a bug using specific Hardware or OS values, the results should also show bugs filed as Unspecified, since it could be one of those. So the only change necessary is to change the search results when using specific Hardware or OS values to also include bugs filed with Unspecified.
Thinking about it yet some more, does it ever make sense to file a bug as "Unspecified"? All and Unspecified are analogous to boolean AND and OR, resp. When filing a bug, one knows more than just that it exists on some OS (for example) - one knows that it exists on the specific OS the bug was spotted on. If that's all one knows, the bug should be filed for that specific OS. If one knows that the bug exists for all values of OS, then it should be filed under "All". The same is true for Hardware. On the other hand, searching for "Unspecified" makes sense, since one may be interested in seeing bugs for any value of the parameter. So I think "Unspecified" should be a valid choice for searching for bugs, but not for filing them.
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As noted previously, the Bugzilla Team is cleaning up a large number of outstanding issues that have bit rotted. This bug is being closed as there has been no response to that notification. If you believe this bug is still important please reopen this bug in the NEW status and PM will consider it.
Reopening and changing Version to 4.2. I don't appear to have the choice of setting the Status to NEW (maybe after it's reopened?).
There, now I can.
(In reply to comment #0) > Steps to Reproduce: > 1. File a new bug. The OS defaults to "Unspecified". > 2. Search for the bug. The OS defaults to "Linux". I don't know how it > chooses this, whether it always happens for bugzilla.redhat.com or whether > it's doing some kind of User Agent checking. I also don't know why it > doesn't make the same OS choice for bug searching as for bug filing. This will be your configured in your default search options, as they are not the site wide default search options (which is for any OS). Since there are legitimate reason why the OS would be Unspecified, I'm marking this bug as NOTABUG. You can edit or forget your default search options by going to Preferences -> Saved Searches -> (default query) -- simon