[Reportbug-maint] Bug#586155: reportbug: Add button to list bugs considered closed/archived in recent versions

[trasuntopendiente at hotmail.com]

Hello again

> From: morph at debian.org
> Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 00:23:52 +0200
> Subject: Re: Bug#586155: reportbug: Add button to list bugs considered 	closed/archived in recent versions
> To: trasuntopendiente at hotmail.com; 586155 at bugs.debian.org
> 
> Hello Elora,
> 
> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 00:13, Elora HRanma
> <trasuntopendiente at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Package: reportbug
> > Version: 4.10.2
> > Severity: wishlist
> >
> > Hi, maintainers
> >
> > I'd love to see a button in the open bugs list which would let me browse those recently closed. It would prevent creating new bugs which should have actually been reopened.
> > E.g.: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=564117 which cannot be seen in reportbug, but is actually not fixed (it has been reopened in package libgtk-ruby1.8).
> > If I have found, by using the web, the bug I want to reopen, but still want to use reportbug, it would be really helpful if it let me find it, using filters on closed bugs.
> 
> Are you asking that reportbug get (somehow, implementative detail) the
> list of recently (but how much is "recent"?) closed bug in the whole
> BTS or for a single package?
> 

I am talking about recent bugs for a given package. Somehow I missed that point in the description. "Recent" could be an option or a simple heuristic, like "archived less than one mont ago". Another possible meaning for "recent" would be "In the last X releases of the package", although the relevance of the release count varies heavily from one package to another.

> For a give pkg, you already have the list of resolved bugs not
> archived (that happened after 30 days of inactivity).

The bug I gave as an example was archived and reopened, through a new bug report, just 3 days after its archival. But maybe that was an extreme case, because 30 days should be more than enough to consider a bug closed. The way I see it, the user would initially have the list of open and unarchived bugs and, if the bug is not in there, press a "Show recently archived" button, which would trigger another query to BTS (select bugs of package archived in the last 30 days).
Another possibility would be adding 2 radio buttons to the package selection screen, giving a (cumulative) choice on which bugs to retrieve: "Open and unarchived bugs", "Open, unarchived and recently archived".

> 
> If you think about the whole BTS, consider that reportbug (and his
> companion querybts) are very package-centric, and I don't know who
> feasable is to extend for this quite peculiar request.
> 
> Regards,
> -- 
> Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu)
> My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/
> Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi

Cheers,
  Elideb

 		 	   		  
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