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".