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[Graham Binns <graham@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 17 August 2010 10:20, Abel Deuring <abel.deuring@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Also, I don't see why full text search rather than structured search
>> is needed here - I mean, if the data is structured fairly clearly,
>> just a regular query would do, wouldn't it?
>
> People might be interested to subscribe only to a subset of bugs of a
> project or source package which affect a certain aspect.
>
> Well, a use case would be "subscribe to all new bugs for firefox which
> mention 'flash'". Sure, you can use tags to do this, but if the tag does
> not exist for whichever reason, for example, disagreement if it makes
> sense for the project/package, or if you want to see new bugs in order
> to decide if the bug should be labeled with the tag, a full text search
> is quite convenient, I think.

My ha'p'orth of unhelpful confirmation:

+1. We definitely need to support subscribing to a textual search,
either in the first iteration of search subscriptions or in the
not-too-distant future.

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