On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 7:57 PM, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2017-10-09, R0b0t1 <r03...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Monday, October 9, 2017, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On 2017-10-09, allan gottlieb <gottl...@nyu.edu> wrote: >>> >>>> This is a know bug see https://bugs.gentoo.org/633790 >>> >>> Yep, that's it. Yet when you search for roundingflags or >>> shapedtextflags in Gentoo's bugzilla, it finds nothing. Has the >>> search feature in Bugzilla ever worked? >> >> It's pretty limited. > > You're being too kind. It's broken. According to the bugzilla web > page, the search includes the summary/description (as one might > expect), but it doesn't actually _do_ that. >
Well, it successfully searches for substrings. >> You might notice developers renaming bugs - >> this is why. They usually include the full package name and version >> in their rename, as well as the exact text from the last or most >> important error encountered. > > Why do people still use bugzilla?? > > I've used MantisBT a lot over the past few years, and it seems like it > works much better than bugzilla in many ways. It even has a search > that works! Even Jira was better than bugzilla, and I never liked > Jira much. > > Of course switching from one bug tracking system to another is a > pretty big undertaking... > I worked with a project that used Mantis and had a good experience with it. At this point I'm not sure it would be possible to get people to switch. There are a few migration scripts: http://www.mantisbt.org/wiki/doku.php/mantisbt:faq. R0b0t1.
