bugzilla not being particularly helpful

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at mindspring.com
Tue Nov 16 14:27:06 UTC 2004


  historically, i've found that querying bugzilla doesn't seem to
locate what i think should be obviously-filed bugs.

  recently, i posted on how FC3, early in the install process,
suddenly frazzles the colour map on a dell latitude laptop.  almost
immediately, someone mentioned that that was already filed in
bugzilla.  ok, i thought, at least i know where to go to read about
it.

  just now, that's what i wanted to do.  so i went to bugzilla and did
a query, being as wide-ranging as i thought i needed to be:

  fedora core
  fc3
  anaconda (assuming it's an installer thing)
  all possible statuses (just to play it safe)
  all possible resolutions (see above)
  no filtering keywords at all

in short, what i think should give me every possible bugzilla entry
related to anaconda in FC3.  i get 67 reports, not one of which
relates to what i'm looking for.  how odd.

  so i go back and make a single change to the query, adding the word
"color" in the string search summary field.  zarro boogs found.

  so what sort of magic incantation am i missing?  in fact, i removed
the reference to anaconda to let bugzilla at the entire FC3 bug
database, and asked it to filter just on the word "color".  zarro
boogs found.

  thoughts?

rday




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