[Mageia-dev] Proposal for bugzilla

[Maarten Vanraes]

Op vrijdag 24 december 2010 11:37:21 schreef Samuel Verschelde:
> Le vendredi 24 décembre 2010 01:20:41, Dexter Morgan a écrit :
> > On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 11:22 PM, Ahmad Samir <ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com>
> 
> wrote:
> > > On 24 December 2010 00:13, Maarten Vanraes <maarten.vanraes at gmail.com>
> 
> wrote:
> > >> Op donderdag 23 december 2010 22:23:56 schreef Ahmad Samir:
> > >>> On 23 December 2010 22:01, Samuel Verschelde <stormi at laposte.net> 
wrote:
> > >>> > I remember some years ago you could choose the exact version of the
> > >>> > package for which you reported a bug, from a list. I agree that
> > >>> > improving the UI side helpers could be useful.
> > >>> > 
> > >>> > Regards
> > >>> > 
> > >>> > Samuel Verschelde
> > >>> 
> > >>> As was said by dmorgan, listing each SRPM slowed down bugzilla a lot;
> > >>> the distro has a lot of SRPMS...
> > >> 
> > >> an ajax search is better; it doesn't add much and only gets searched
> > >> if you enter at least 2 chars, or something like that.
> > >> 
> > >> if such an ajax is wanted, i can write that if i can use app-mageia-db
> > >> or similar as a list.
> > > 
> > > If the user doesn't know how to find the package info (rpm -q
> > > packagname), no auto-complete is going to help much, he'll just pick
> > > one of them randomly (top of the list, or bottom of the list). It's
> > > not much to ask for rpm -q output...
> > > 
> > > --
> > > Ahmad Samir
> > 
> > and this method is deprecated ( i mean the big list ) because this
> > slow down too much the server.
> 
> No one talked about having back the big list. However an ajax auto-complete
> on an indexed field usually doesn't ask too much from the server.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Samuel Verschelde

exactly; that's what i mean.

it needn't even be enforced, just color background green if recognized or 
something and giving suggestions when typing