RFE: Option to search bugs with tags (--tags)

Emilio,

The tag field seems to be a free text rather than something like a dropdown. So the success of this option depends on how the user enters the tag field and whether it is spelled correctly etc.

if some one enters for tag as "command line" while other enters "commandline", they may not match.

Is that ok ?

Please correct me if i am wrong.

Pappan

Hey Pappan

Yes, you're right.
LP doesn't support tags with spaces, such us "command line", so that should be 2 tags, "command" and "line".
So that looks good to me.

Best regards
Emilio

Emilio,

How about someone entering like command_line ? ;)

The point i am trying to make is, since this is a free text, people can enter whatever they want and in whatever way ( i have seen "kount" being using for "count" etc). So my concern was this option should not miss things there by giving wrong impression to people using these tools.

But do note that i am not against this option. :)

What is everyone's opinion ?

Pappan

Don't worry, your opinion is as valid as mine ;)

Yes, that can happen, but if you use the option well, it can be really useful.
Also, remember it is an option, so you are able to not use it.

And, also, you can search for the "thispackagedoesnotexist" package, and it will return no results :-P . But that doesn't mean we shouldn't have the -p <package> usage.

That's just my opinion :)
What do you think?

Cheers
Emilio

Added patch to add "--tag" filter-option to bugnumbers and bughelper:
Example usage:
./bugnumbers -p bughelper --tag bitesize,commandline -U

same with bughelper

Needs to be documented in the docs!

Can't get it working:

emilio@kiko:~/deb/bughelper/bughelper.r01$ ./bughelper -p ubiquity --tag=grub
emilio@kiko:~/deb/bughelper/bughelper.r01$ ./bughelper -p totem --tag=totem-gstreamer
emilio@kiko:~/deb/bughelper/bughelper.r01$

Any idea?

For the record:
* In the cases described by Emilio the "--tag"-option works fine, there is no bug which matches to the clue-file AND has the given tag
* The tag-filter only works for "-p <package>" and not for "-l <URL>" - don't know if we need that.
* I added the "--tag"-option to the docbooks in my branch

Added a patch against bughelper.main r114 to add --tag option to bugnumbers and bughelper.
Can someone please review and merge it into .main

Markus

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revno: 115
committer: Daniel Holbach <email address hidden>
branch nick: bughelper.main
timestamp: Thu 2007-03-15 19:37:35 +0100
message:
  Merge Markus' patch to fix bug #90087
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