[Mageia-dev] Proposal for bugzilla

Fri Dec 24 12:01:27 CET 2010

Op vrijdag 24 december 2010 11:37:21 schreef Samuel Verschelde:
+> Le vendredi 24 décembre 2010 01:20:41, Dexter Morgan a écrit :
+> > On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 11:22 PM, Ahmad Samir <ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com>
+> 
+> wrote:
+> > > 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
+> > 
+> > and this method is deprecated ( i mean the big list ) because this
+> > slow down too much the server.
+> 
+> No one talked about having back the big list. However an ajax auto-complete
+> on an indexed field usually doesn't ask too much from the server.
+> 
+> Regards
+> 
+> Samuel Verschelde
+
+exactly; that's what i mean.
+
+it needn't even be enforced, just color background green if recognized or 
+something and giving suggestions when typing
+