[Mageia-dev] Proposal for bugzilla

Thu Dec 23 23:22:45 CET 2010

On 24 December 2010 00:13, Maarten Vanraes <maarten.vanraes at gmail.com> wrote:
+> Op donderdag 23 december 2010 22:23:56 schreef Ahmad Samir:
+>> On 23 December 2010 22:01, Samuel Verschelde <stormi at laposte.net> wrote:
+>> > I remember some years ago you could choose the exact version of the
+>> > package for which you reported a bug, from a list. I agree that
+>> > improving the UI side helpers could be useful.
+>> >
+>> > Regards
+>> >
+>> > Samuel Verschelde
+>>
+>> As was said by dmorgan, listing each SRPM slowed down bugzilla a lot;
+>> the distro has a lot of SRPMS...
+>
+> an ajax search is better; it doesn't add much and only gets searched if you
+> enter at least 2 chars, or something like that.
+>
+> if such an ajax is wanted, i can write that if i can use app-mageia-db or
+> similar as a list.
+>
+
+If the user doesn't know how to find the package info (rpm -q
+packagname), no auto-complete is going to help much, he'll just pick
+one of them randomly (top of the list, or bottom of the list). It's
+not much to ask for rpm -q output...
+
+-- 
+Ahmad Samir
+