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[Robert Collins <robert.collins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 10:10 PM, Julian Edwards
<julian.edwards@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thursday 14 October 2010 22:27:11 Ursula Junque wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Robert Collins <
>>
>> robert.collins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 6:13 AM, Julian Edwards
>> >
>> > <julian.edwards@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > > On Thursday 14 October 2010 05:35:46 Robert Collins wrote:
>> > >> I'm going to add a tag 'pg83' to all the existing timeout bugs; if
>> > >
>> > > Did you mean to remove the timeout tag at the same time or is that an
>> > > accident?
>> >
>> > It was deliberate,  per the zero oops policy they are meant to be
>> > tagged with only 'timeout' - or so I was request by Ursula a couple of
>> > months back.
>>
>> This is because the tag 'timeout' implies OOPS, as timeout is a category of
>> OOPS. So we keep the 'oops' tag for exceptions, and 'timeout' for timeout
>> OOPSes. If one wants to know all bugs that are OOPSes (any OOPS), combining
>> both tags in a search should work. Is this not working for (plural) you?
>
> If the interface to search for multiple tags were easier I'd agree, but as it
> is I find it painful.
>
> As an example, this is what I do to find "oops":
>
> 1. Go to https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/soyuz
> 2. Click on the "oops" tag in the tag cloud.  Easy!
>
> To search for multiple tags:
>
> 1. Go to https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/soyuz
> 2. Click on "Advanced search"
> 3. Scroll the page down to get to the tag input box
> 4. Manually type tag names (error-prone)
> 5. Forget that I need to set some more status checkboxes at the top and scroll
> back up to do so
> 6. scroll back down and click search
>
> So in summary, I'd find it really useful if we could keep all relevant tags on
> bugs.  If it's just policy not to, I'd like to recommend changing the policy.
> However, if there's a good technical reason to keep it as it is then fair
> enough.

Not speaking for or against changing the policy, but its really pretty
easy to query multiple tags:
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/launchpad-project/+bugs?field.tag=timeout,oops

-Rob