> On Aug 27, 2018, at 7:28 AM, David T. via gnucash-devel 
> <gnucash-devel@gnucash.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I was just trying to track down the status of documentation bug 777893, and 
> was stymied for a bit. 
> 
> A bit of history: I raised the bug to induce the addition of information 
> about the SQL formats. Subsequently, I wrote a section for inclusion in the 
> Guide, which was submitted 10 days ago as Pull Request #109.
> 
> Today, I wanted to go add the PR # to the bug, and clicked my way to the 
> bugzilla section for the Guide, only to not find the bug in question. 
> Searching by bug number shows that the bug was entered under Help, rather 
> than Guide. This situation points out that breaking the bugs out to this 
> level of granularity can have negative effects: first, it forces a reporter 
> to decide on the appropriate document for a bug, rather than focus on the 
> problem in question; second a user looking for these bugs must discern the 
> specific document to which a given bug was assigned in order to locate said 
> bug; third, it causes difficulty if a given bug recommends changes to more 
> than one piece of documentation, as this bug does—which doc does the bug get 
> assigned to?
> 
> While it may have seemed an advance to be able to structure our bugs to cover 
> specific documents, I wonder at the choice at this point, and ask how 
> difficult it would be either to change the structure itself, or find a way to 
> allow users the option of seeing all Doc bugs in an aggregated screen?

Yeah, don’t select a component when you do the search.

Regards,
John Ralls

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