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Bug 37162 - default Advanced search settings are not so useful
default Advanced search settings are not so useful
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: Wikimedia
Classification: Unclassified
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2012-05-28 15:56 UTC by Amir E. Aharoni
Modified: 2012-11-16 21:16 UTC (History)
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Description Amir E. Aharoni 2012-05-28 15:56:03 UTC 
Why are LATER and DUPLICATE resolutions selected by default in the Advanced search? Is it useful to anybody?

More than once it confused my searches.

This is more useful:
* Select no resolutions by default.
* Select UNCONFIRMED, NEW, ASSIGNED and REOPENED statuses by default. (Currently none are selected.)
Comment 1 Chad H. 2012-05-28 16:33:52 UTC 
LATER and DUPLICATE were added to the default search some time ago to help people avoid filing duplicate bugs. This was geared towards casual contributors, not power users like ourselves.

It's very trivial to change your default search settings if these aren't acceptable.
Comment 2 Andre Klapper 2012-05-30 16:43:03 UTC 
Including LATER (which is a wrong construction somewhere between NEW and WONTFIX but that's not the topic to discuss here) and DUPLICATE will also include reports that are about the same problem but use a different wording in the bug summary. So this can be useful depending on what you search for most.
 
In general from past experience I think it's not possible to find a default search setting that fits everybody's needs.
Comment 3 Thehelpfulone 2012-06-22 19:18:50 UTC 
Resetting to default per bug 37789
Comment 4 Andre Klapper 2012-11-16 21:16:31 UTC 
I currently don't plan to change this as I haven't seen any complaints except for this one, plus I don't see a big disadvantage yet. Sorry. :-/
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