On Sep 18, 2010, at 4:17 AM, Markus Roberts wrote:

>>> I thought it was likely to be a ticket, but searching redmine didn't
>>> turn up anything.
>>> 
>> 
>> My memory is:
>> 
>> http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/2198
> 
> If you think something is a ticket, your options (in order of
> decreasing reliability) are:
> 
> * Ask Luke or James
> * Creative use of wget, grep, etc.
> * google, (possibly with the site: option)
> * Relax your mind and try to remember the ticket number
> * Sequential search (manual)
> * /dev/random
> * The redmine search box
> 
> Sequential search would be higher but (at least for me) my attention
> wanders so badly that I forget what I was looking for and wind up
> heading down other byways; within about ~50 tickets I'm almost
> guaranteed to encounter one more interesting than the one I was
> looking for.

You forgot all about 'memorize ticket database so you know which search terms 
to use'.

And note that you're essentially *always* better off searching only through 
titles and ignore commits.  That's my only secret trick, really, apart from how 
well I (used to) know the ticket db.

-- 
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