Last modified: 2012-11-16 21:16:31 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.)
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.
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.
Resetting to default per bug 37789
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. :-/