On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 09:49:00AM +0100, Benjamin Peterson wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 10, 2019, at 06:54, Raymond Hettinger wrote: > > Another essential bit of tooling for the migration: > > > > * Before filing a bug report or feature request, we ask people to > > search to see if there is already an issue in progress or a resolved > > issue on the topic. We need to make sure that on GitHub issues, > > people can still search our voluminous history of already evaluated and > > decided feature requests. > > I think is something that GitHub already does well compared to > Roundup. GitHub can suggest related issues as you type into the "new > issue" box. https://github.blog/changelog/2018-11-05-related-issues/
That's still in beta, and you have to opt-in to use it. I just tried it, it doesn't work for me. Even if I type the exact same issue title as one already existing, it makes no suggestions. (This doesn't surprise me, hardly anything on github works for me, nor will they until I can afford a new computer.) In any case, it doesn't answer Raymond's request. Even if the Related Issues feature works for you, it doesn't help you track down an existing issue if you're not trying to create a new issue. E.g. you might be searching for an issue you remember seeing but don't know the URL to, or you might be researching something for a PEP and want to find relevant issues. Or you might just be dissatisfied with Github's suggestion algorithm, and want to try with different keywords. Having said that, the "Filters" feature does seem to do the trick. I just tried it on a project I picked at random: https://github.com/sorccu/cufon/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen and it seems quite good. It is quite prominent, and on a couple of quick tests it seems to do the job well. Although using search options ("is:open") in the search box rather than GUI controls will, I think, increase the barrier to entry for beginners. Can Github search the past history on b.p.o as well? -- Steven _______________________________________________ python-committers mailing list -- python-committers@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-committers-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-committers.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-committers@python.org/message/GCNBVUFKD4LH6IKKBZCNF43YFC2EUNWW/ Code of Conduct: https://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
