On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 01:47:33PM +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: > I'd like the ability to do something like: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]&pkg=wnpp > > but currently the observed behaviour is to ignore the pkg argument and > show all bugs for that submitter. See Bug#164416 for an example why > one might want to do this. > > I had a look at pkgreport.cgi with the intent to come up with a patch, > but it looks like such functionality will require a large modification > to the if block on lines 107-163, and I'm not game enough to do that > without being more familiar with the BTS.
It occurred to me that we could extend the include= and exclude= arguments for this, so that you have a "primary index" (e.g. pkg=wnpp) and a bunch of extra arguments like include=submitter:[EMAIL PROTECTED] which limit the entries displayed based on any of the fields in the bug's status file. We already have include=subj:whatever which lets you limit an index by title. See the htmlizebugs() function in cgi/common.pl. Various people have been working on more complete searching mechanisms than this, but I think extending include= and exclude= could give us more flexible searching in the medium term without having to completely upend the system and without imposing much extra CPU load. (God knows how a web form UI for this would look, though.) -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
