Re: What is wrong with Bugzilla? [Was: Re: GCC and Floating-Point]

[Daniel Berlin <dberlin at dberlin dot org>]

On Sun, 2005-05-29 at 13:22 +0300, Michael Veksler wrote:
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> Haren Visavadia wrote on 29/05/2005 10:51:00:
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> > You can search Bugzilla as well, so you do not fill in
> > duplicate bug report.
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> Unfortunately, this is not 100% correct. Recently I have filed several
> duplicates, *after* searching Bugzilla.
> 1. There are too many ways to phrase a title, and too many
>    times I search for wrong words.
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> 2. The same bug may have several different user
>    visible behaviors. You will end up with at least one
>    duplicate per user visible behavior.
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>    At work, I maintain a bug database for my project and I
>    sometimes need to fire-up a debugger to find out that
>    a reported bug is a well known one.
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>    Many times only a trained developer (in the project) can assert
>    that a PR is indeed a duplicate of another one.
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> 3. Nontrivial search of GCC Bugzilla are, sometimes,
>    extremely slow (over a minute). This inhibits multiple
>    searches. I usually give up after the first one, and don't
>    bother with a different type of query (which could have
>    revealed a similar PR).
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Please send me the urls' to the buglists that are taking a long time to
generate (I don't care if they are a billion character long urls, i know
what to do with them :P)

I should be able to determine what will be necessary to make them go
faster.
--Dan