Comment 15 for bug 557432

IMHO, the reason datecreated and date_last_updated are popular search sorts is because as a developer you only care about bugs in the current development version.

Since bugs reported against the current development version by definition will be amongst the newer bugs, sorting by datecreated will make these be in the top (mixed with other uninteresting bugs that just happened to be reported recently).

A better solution would be to make Launchpad track the versions of the package that were tested, and to allow filtering to only see bugs of that version. The default listing should show only bugs relevant for the version the user has, much like how PPAs only show packages for the Ubuntu version that the user is on.

A benefit of this is that it makes the bug lists look much less overwhelming. :-)

I've been experimenting with using scripts to tag X bugs with the distro version they affect, so I can ignore everything except lucid bugs. It's worked *amazingly* well. I'd be happy to elaborate at length on my thoughts on how to use this methodology more widely in launchpad.