===== Bugzilla Search Ideas =====

==== Comments ====

The [[https://bugstest.freebsd.org/bugzilla/query.cgi?format=advanced|Advanced Search]] page is mysterious and underdocumented.  Most committers do not even know it exists.  Perhaps we should create a front-end for it.

==== Specific Searches To Create ====

  * most committers should have a "patch included" search checkbox, also on by default.  This would save all that clicking in the Advanced Search page -- including the fact that you have to select "is equal to" from the dropdown and enter the value of "1".  Obscure much???
    * Here is a [[https://bugstest.freebsd.org/bugzilla/query.cgi?format=specific|proposed implementation]] of adding that checkbox to the "Simple Search" page.  Note that having this checkbox has a mutex with being able to use the "Custom Search" fields, due to magical hacking.

  * most committers should have a "within the last N months" search checkbox and it should be on by default.  6, 12, I don't care.  But nything more than 12 is overwhelming.

  * perhaps a checkbox of "assigned to no one".

    * (fancier) perhaps near two dropdowns of "assigned to mailing list" and "assigned to individual"?.  The mailing lists would have to be statically defined, and "individual" as "@%%FreeBSD%%.org but not mailing list".  This kind of sounds like an add-on database, eh?

:!: the following initial proposals perhaps will be subsumed by the proposed refactoring of Keywords:

  * one search that is just for Keywords -- with a dropdown list.  [[Bugzilla/Keywords]] should not have to be a separate (and confusing) page in the Wiki.

  * the Keywords encompass [[Bugzilla/Keywords#Classification|four different types of concepts.]]  These should be disambiguated somehow.

    * most committers are probably only interested in [[Bugzilla/Keywords#Component_Related]] and [[Bugzilla/Keywords#Hardware_Related]].

==== Usability ====

Text searches are so greyyyyyyy.

  * compare the (abandoned prototypes) [[https://people.freebsd.org/~linimon/presentations/prs2008/foil10.html|pie chart 1]] and [[https://people.freebsd.org/~linimon/presentations/prs2008/foil14.html|pie chart 2]] for kernel PRs.

  * perhaps these would be better (or alternatively?) be links from a block diagram.  Compare:

    * [[https://twitter.com/brendangregg/status/525707800584810496/photo/1|block diagram from Brendan Gregg]].
    * [[https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lars-Eggert/publication/239441788/figure/fig20/AS:669527914344467@1536639302321/FreeBSD-kernel-I-O-overview-Adapted-from-MCKUSICK1996.png|McKusick 1996]].  Subject to copyright.
    * TODO 20210709 I have scratchpad for this but not yet permission to unleash it on the world; email me for details

==== Mark's Slides From 2008 ====

For comparison: [[https://people.freebsd.org/~linimon/presentations/prs2008/foil17.html|2008 search ideas]]

==== Questions ====

  * How much area do the "specific mailing lists" cover?

  * How much area do the Keywords cover?

==== See Also ====

  * [[MarkLinimon/Bugzilla/CategorizationIdeas]]
  * [[MarkLinimon/Bugzilla/DashboardIdeas]]
  * [[MarkLinimon/Bugzilla/WorkflowIdeas]]

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