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Re: [Launchpad-users] new way to look at the bugs



Hi, Martin.

On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Martin Pool<mbp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2009/9/3 Jonathan Lange <jml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>> The generic way to solve this problem is to allow custom sort criteria
>>> with an added bonus being a way to save that sort criteria as a query --
>>> but if it's in a URL you get a poor-man's version of that as a bookmark.
>>
>> Not only is it generic, but it's probably the right way of doing it,
>> since there will always be interesting, unanticipated questions that
>> people have about their bugs.
>
> Yay flexibility, but I think at the moment there are some entirely
> standard predicable and common sort orders or queries that aren't well
> handled, and that don't need custom sort orders to handle them.
>
> As Robert describes, there are:
>
>  * Assess/triage things that are not yet assessed (ie new, or
> unassigned priority)
>  * Finish things off that are already in progress (ie inprogress
> and/or assigned)
>  * Find something new and important to do
>
> I think these can be handled well by adding either sort orders, or
> filters to the portlet.  At any rate I would recommend trying that
> before doing anything else.

Agreed that we should tackle the common first and then move toward the
flexible.  And perhaps these are not exclusive.

>
> Eventually, some kind of query language in that field where I can say
> for example
>
>  importance:critical or status:inprogress or assignee:mbp
>
> would be cool, but we don't need that yet.

but it would be cool, indeed. :)

Cheers,
deryck

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