Current searching tools in Bugzilla include the querying mechanism,
-special summary reports and dependency trees. This message is about new
-facilities.
-
-1. General Summary Reports
-
-For some time now it has been apparent to me that the query bug list
-leaves a little to be desired in its linear nature. There is a need to
-have categorised subsets, and counts of each category. If you don't
-believe me, how about these facilities already in place or which people
-have asked for:
-
-Most Doomed Reports - Categorised On Assignee, Shows and Counts Number
-of Bugs For Each Assignee
-Bug #15806 (Most Voted For Bugs) - Categorised On Product, Shows Bugs
-Voters Most Want Fixed
-Bug #9789 (BugAThon Tracking Page) - Categorised On Developer (Subset),
-Counts Number of Bugs
-Bug #9409 and #9411 - The desire to be able to report on more subsets.
-
-Hopefully you can see the gist of what is desired here. It's a general
-reporting mechanism.
-
-This mechanism lets you choose the subset of bugs to operate on (like
-query), let's you categorise them, possibly along with subcategories and
-counts the number of bugs within each category. It might or might not
-show the actual bugs themselves, and it might limit the number of bugs
-within a category, or categories to report on.
-
-I'm further sure that many applications of this mechanism would only be
-recognised once it was implemented.
-
-The general summary reports bug is at
-"http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12282".
-
-2. Related Bugs
-
-It would be nice to have a field where you could enter other bugs
-related to the current bug - it would be handy for navigation and
-possibly even finding duplicates. See
-"http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12286".
-
-3. Column Specification Support
-
-Currently query seems to get what columns to report on from whatever the
-user last used. This doesn't work well for "prepackaged queries", where
-you followed a link. You can probably add a column by specifying a sort
-column, but this is difficult and suboptimal.
-
-Furthermore, I find that when I want to add a column to a query, it's
-usually a one off and I would prefer it to go away for the next query.
-Hence, it would be nice to specify the columns that appear on the query
-(and general summary report) pages. The default query mechanism should
-be able to let you specify your default columns.
-
-This proposal lives at
-"http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12284".