[Mageia-dev] Proposal for bugzilla

Sat Dec 25 10:54:32 CET 2010

Op zaterdag 25 december 2010 10:18:17 schreef andre999:
+> Maarten Vanraes a écrit :
+> > 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.
+> 
+> OK, I did a little search on Ajax, and I think that I understand now.
+> It seems that you're proposing autocompletion on the text typed in the
+> field - and only matches will be downloaded.
+> But if it starts with 2 characters, there could be still 1000's of names
+> downloaded.
+> I would suggest that we would need at least 5 characters to restrict the
+> names downloaded to a reasonable number.
+> 
+> Also, there is another factor.  If we are looking for srpm names, but
+> the user enters binary rpm names, there will not necessarily be a match,
+> particularly if the srpm results in more than one binary rpm.
+> So in some cases this will not work.
+> 
+> But I have another idea.
+> Maybe we could have separate (binary) rpm and srpm fields.
+> There is a button on the page, which will invoke the command to give the
+> srpms associated with the binary rpms.
+> Would this be workable ?
+> Something that would execute
+>   $ rpm -q --qf '{sourcerpm}' {pkg-name}
+> and would automatically enter the result in the srpm field, or at least
+> display it so it could be typed in.
+> 
+> Of course, this would have to be done by the user experiencing the
+> problems, to ensure having the correct version.
+> We would also have to deal with the cases where more than one rpm has
+> the bug.
+> 
+> If we can automate this, we can dispense with the potential problems
+> associated with a list of srpms.  And it would be (at least somewhat)
+> more efficient both server and client side, as well.
+> 
+> Just an idea
+> 
+> André
+
+this is no more than sort of TAB completion on the urpmi commands.
+
+averagely 2 characters have ~600 possibilities; meaning that 2 chars give 
+average 25 srpm results. in practice this can be 150 results or something
+
+consider also the fact that these are src.rpm , so huge lib**** and the fact 
+that we won't be starting with everything...
+
+imho instead of destroying an idea you don't know much about; why don't i 
+implement it and then you can evaluate if it's bad or not.
+