Last modified: 2014-07-16 11:23:18 UTC
It would be great if bugzilla had a free-form keyword or tag field. The current keywords are restricted to a fixed list, which makes them mostly useless for our purposes. The only keyword we ever used was 'easy'. Use case in parsoid is bugs affecting several components or a common topic like images. Our main work-around is stuffing keywords into the subject line.
See the "Tags" field (above, between "Keywords" and "Depends on") that was introduced in 4.4 (bug 56183 for reference) that we just upgraded to. :)
(In reply to Gabriel Wicke from comment #0) > The only keyword we ever used was 'easy'. Not true; we have used many other keywords, such as shell, ops, i18n, etc.
(In reply to Tomasz W. Kozlowski from comment #2) > Not true; we have used many other keywords "we" = presumably "Parsoid team".
(In reply to Andre Klapper from comment #3) > (In reply to Tomasz W. Kozlowski from comment #2) > > Not true; we have used many other keywords > > "we" = presumably "Parsoid team". Yup. Awesome to have tags now. I even created the bug just before the upgrade, but wasn't able to save it in time. So very timely ;)
Could the tag field be included in default searches too? Right now this requires an advanced search, which makes tags less useful than the old add-them-to-the-title work-around.
Define "default search" (preferably by a link).
Primarily the search box in the top-right corner, but also https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/query.cgi.
I should mention that Tags are on a personal / account level - using the whiteboard might also work. Top-right corner supports quicksearch, see https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/page.cgi?id=quicksearch.html for the full crazyness. Wondering if that's sufficient.
(In reply to Andre Klapper from comment #8) > I should mention that Tags are on a personal / account level Oh, I didn't realize that. Very different from how normal tags are working then, maybe the bugzilla devs didn't think the naming through very well. > - using the whiteboard might also work. Indeed, never realized that whiteboard is really a tagging mechanism.
(In reply to Andre Klapper from comment #8) > using the whiteboard might also work. That does it, thanks! Normal search does indeed include the whiteboard field.
Closing as worksforme as the functionality is there; the misleading-UI issue can be tracked elsewhere.
