[Mageia-dev] Proposal for bugzilla

[Ahmad Samir]

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...

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Ahmad Samir