Bugzilla searches went down from "so-so" to "unusable"

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 21:21:07 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

> > > > With the older bugzilla, one also encountered those time-outs when
> > > > using machines with less than 2 GHz clock rates. With the new
> > > > bugzilla, the requirement for processor power has increased a lot.
> > > 
> > > Processor power in the *client*?
> > 
> > Yes.
> 
> It's a web interface to a database. Is the database bigger or more
> complex than Expedia or Travelocity or Amazon? Does the interaction
> require more complex Javascript than Google Docs? I don't get it.

It's not the database size. It's the complexity of the dynamic search
form. Multiple thousands of package names per several product versions,
for example. 

To strip this down to a simple search field such as Google's, one would
need to completely change the way the user interacts with a form for
simple (=default) queries. Instead of being able to make settings with
huge listboxes and many checkboxes, one could require the user to enter
many values manually via special keywords. Imagine the default quick
search field would take options like ".package:glibc .product:fedora
.version:devel" or similar, and leave the complex search form for creation
of much more complex queries.

For simple queries I prefer http://bugz.fedoraproject.org/NAME
already to look up bugs in a specific fedora pkg.