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 -- Deryck Hodge https://launchpad.net/~deryck http://www.devurandom.org/
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