Thanks, John; I found that about ten minutes after I sent it out! 

I do still think that a bug that crosses documents causes categorization 
issues. Adrien’s suggestion to add a General (I paraphrase) option might be 
useful.

David

> On Aug 27, 2018, at 11:09 AM, John Ralls <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> On Aug 27, 2018, at 7:28 AM, David T. via gnucash-devel 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I was just trying to track down the status of documentation bug 777893, and 
>> was stymied for a bit. 
>> 
>> A bit of history: I raised the bug to induce the addition of information 
>> about the SQL formats. Subsequently, I wrote a section for inclusion in the 
>> Guide, which was submitted 10 days ago as Pull Request #109.
>> 
>> Today, I wanted to go add the PR # to the bug, and clicked my way to the 
>> bugzilla section for the Guide, only to not find the bug in question. 
>> Searching by bug number shows that the bug was entered under Help, rather 
>> than Guide. This situation points out that breaking the bugs out to this 
>> level of granularity can have negative effects: first, it forces a reporter 
>> to decide on the appropriate document for a bug, rather than focus on the 
>> problem in question; second a user looking for these bugs must discern the 
>> specific document to which a given bug was assigned in order to locate said 
>> bug; third, it causes difficulty if a given bug recommends changes to more 
>> than one piece of documentation, as this bug does—which doc does the bug get 
>> assigned to?
>> 
>> While it may have seemed an advance to be able to structure our bugs to 
>> cover specific documents, I wonder at the choice at this point, and ask how 
>> difficult it would be either to change the structure itself, or find a way 
>> to allow users the option of seeing all Doc bugs in an aggregated screen?
> 
> Yeah, don’t select a component when you do the search.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
> 

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