bugzilla not being particularly helpful
Robert P. J. Day
rpjday at mindspring.com
Tue Nov 16 14:34:18 UTC 2004
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 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.
as a quick followup, i ducked into the list archives and found:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-November/msg01483.html
still looking.
rday
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