Launchpad itself

Entering a product name at a package bugs page search doesn't offer the product - searches are highly contextual

Bug #5447 reported by GerhardGaußling on 2005-12-07

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Launchpad itself	Triaged	Low	Unassigned

Bug Description

While at <https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/gaim/+bugs>, Gerhard entered "launchpad" in the search field and expected to get access to bugs about the Launchpad product.

Perhaps if a search term matches an existing product name, this could be presented as a "Were you looking for __bugs in foo__?" link. This would probably need a blacklist of products that had very common words as names.

(Gerhard tried a similar tactic at <https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/+package>, entering "launchpad" into the "Linux Distribution" field. This is covered by bug 3019.)

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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote on 2005-12-07:

Sorry, I have no idea what you're trying to say here.
1. What are you trying to find?
2. What is the URL of the page where you're trying to find it?
3. What text are you entering?

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GerhardGaußling (ggrubbish-web) wrote on 2005-12-07: Re: [Bug 5447] Grave usability bugs in LP: One cannot report in an easy way a bug against launchpad

Am Mittwoch 07 Dezember 2005 13:39 schrieb Matthew Paul Thomas:
> Public bug report changed:
> https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/5447
>
> Comment:
> Sorry, I have no idea what you're trying to say here.
> 1. What are you trying to find?
> 2. What is the URL of the page where you're trying to find it?
> 3. What text are you entering?

Hello,

1. I'm sorry to be confused about malone. I tried to fuind a bug filed
against launchpad, and I was in the bug site of gaim. (see png for
etails).
2. https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/+package
I put launchpad in distribution, because there is no package called
"launchpad" in ubuntu. No obvious help on this topic.
Sourcepackage for launchpad?
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/gaim/+bug/701
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/gaim/+bugs?field.searchtext=launchpad&search=Search
like I mentioned above, this happened because I was in gaim/+bugs, and I
assumed that the searchfiel works for every bug and therefore also for
bugs in launchpad.
3. launchpad

I'm sorry for the confusion, but It seems to me, that I need a little
help page to use malone.

Regards

Gerhard Gaußling

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GerhardGaußling (ggrubbish-web) wrote on 2005-12-07:

here are the screenshots.

regards

Gerhard Gaußling

Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) on 2005-12-08

description:

updated

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Christian Reis (kiko) wrote on 2005-12-10: Re: Entering a product name at a package bugs page doesn't offer the product

I think this bug will effectively be dealt with the Guided Bug Form, which Brad mentioned in bug 3620, and has suggested he will work on soon. Is there a bug filed on that?

Brad Bollenbach (bradb) on 2005-12-12

Changed in malone:
status:	New → Accepted

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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote on 2005-12-14:

As far as I can tell, the guided bug form has nothing to do with this bug. This bug is about actively searching for bugs, not about reporting them.

Robert Collins (lifeless) on 2011-09-20

summary:	- Entering a product name at a package bugs page doesn't offer the product + Entering a product name at a package bugs page search doesn't offer the + product
summary:	Entering a product name at a package bugs page search doesn't offer the - product + product - searches are highly contextual
Changed in launchpad:
importance:	Medium → Low

William Grant (wgrant) on 2015-09-11

tags:

added: bug-search

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