Package: reportbug Version: 6.4.4 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer,
Reporting various bugs against various packages using reportbug, I have come to realise the search is almost unusable. When you search for something, in this case "search", but equally with longer or more complex strings of words, it brings up many unrelated options. I'm not sure what the criterion are for being brought up in a search, but almost always most of the things returned bear no meaningful relation to what is being searched. Slightly more complex search principles to help decide what and how to return things, would make it much more useful. Not only finding anything with the word in, but prioritising it, depending on weather the word is in the title/descriptive text, how often the words come up, what order and so on, and ranking them based on this. It comes across as a program that has had a GUI tacked on to a CLI program, rather than making use of the possible features. This makes it difficult to find previous reports, and is slightly off-putting - which prevents small (usability) bugs from being reportant. Rethinking the presentation could be good as well. The different categories of Important/minor/ etc... are useful, but instead of having to open and look through each of these seperately, it would be more useful if the program tried to just order the reports in relevance to the search, and then had buttons to sort them, as with email clients. This would all make it quicker and easier to find similar reports, and make the whole process easier. -- Package-specific info: ** Environment settings: INTERFACE="gtk2" ** /home/zack/.reportbugrc: reportbug_version "6.4.4" mode standard ui gtk2 realname "Z" email "b...@theloosespoke.org.uk" no-cc header "X-Debbugs-CC: b...@theloosespoke.org.uk" smtphost reportbug.debian.org -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.12-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages reportbug depends on: ii apt 0.9.14.2 ii python 2.7.5-5 ii python-reportbug 6.4.4 reportbug recommends no packages. Versions of packages reportbug suggests: pn claws-mail <none> pn debconf-utils <none> pn debsums <none> pn dlocate <none> pn emacs22-bin-common | emacs23-bin-common <none> ii exim4 4.82-3 ii exim4-daemon-light [mail-transport-agent] 4.82-3 ii file 1:5.14-2 ii gnupg 1.4.16-1 ii python-gtk2 2.24.0-3+b1 ii python-gtkspell 2.25.3-12 pn python-urwid <none> ii python-vte 1:0.28.2-5 ii xdg-utils 1.1.0~rc1+git20111210-7 Versions of packages python-reportbug depends on: ii apt 0.9.14.2 ii python 2.7.5-5 ii python-debian 0.1.21+nmu2 ii python-debianbts 1.11 ii python-support 1.0.15 python-reportbug suggests no packages. -- no debconf information _______________________________________________ Reportbug-maint mailing list Reportbug-maint@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/reportbug-maint