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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