Chris Bartley wrote:

> I imagine a lot of their time is wasted
> because people were too lazy to do a simple search before they posted (e.g.
> doing a search for items that were resolved as Duplicate, Do Not Fix,
> Obsolete, or Not repeatable turned up 521 requests).

This may partly be due to the fact that you can't easily search for some 
plain text that exists anywhere in the request -- you have to search for 
"TITLE contains foo or DESCRIPTION contains foo".  In many requests the 
main information is in the title and there is no description, and in 
others the title is incomprehensible or incomplete and the main 
information is in the description.

And if you want to search for requests containing "inspection" or 
"analysis", you need to search for "TITLE contains inspection or 
DESCRIPTION contains inspection or TITLE contains analysis or 
DESCRIPTION contains analysis".

My suggestions would be:

(1) Add a pseudo-field "anywhere in request", or at least "title or 
description" as described in 
<URL:http://www.intellij.net/tracker/itn/viewSCR?publicId=346>. 
Apparently something like this is already planned 
(<URL:http://www.intellij.net/tracker/itn/viewSCR?publicId=246>).


(2) Add a simple search function to the request list.  Don't make us:

  * Click SEARCH
  * Wait for a new web page to be loaded
  * Select "based on [nothing]"
  * Select "title" (or "title or description", or whatever)
  * Select CONTAINS
  * Add something to search for

Just add a simple text field where we can enter a search term in the 
main bug list, and use this to search for text anywhere in the request 
(or at least, in the title or the description).

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