On Wed, Sep 11, 2019, at 00:32, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 09:49:00AM +0100, Benjamin Peterson wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 10, 2019, at 06:54, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> > > Another essential bit of tooling for the migration:
> > >
> > > * Before filing a bug report or feature request, we ask people to
> > > search to see if there is already an issue in progress or a resolved
> > > issue on the topic. We need to make sure that on GitHub issues,
> > > people can still search our voluminous history of already evaluated and
> > > decided feature requests.
> >
> > I think is something that GitHub already does well compared to
> > Roundup. GitHub can suggest related issues as you type into the "new
> > issue" box. https://github.blog/changelog/2018-11-05-related-issues/
>
> That's still in beta, and you have to opt-in to use it.
>
> I just tried it, it doesn't work for me. Even if I type the exact same
> issue title as one already existing, it makes no suggestions. (This
> doesn't surprise me, hardly anything on github works for me, nor will
> they until I can afford a new computer.)
>
> In any case, it doesn't answer Raymond's request. Even if the Related
> Issues feature works for you, it doesn't help you track down an
> existing issue if you're not trying to create a new issue. E.g. you
> might be searching for an issue you remember seeing but don't know the
> URL to, or you might be researching something for a PEP and want to find
> relevant issues. Or you might just be dissatisfied with Github's
> suggestion algorithm, and want to try with different keywords.
>
> Having said that, the "Filters" feature does seem to do the trick. I
> just tried it on a project I picked at random:
>
> https://github.com/sorccu/cufon/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen
>
> and it seems quite good. It is quite prominent, and on a couple of quick
> tests it seems to do the job well. Although using search options
> ("is:open") in the search box rather than GUI controls will, I think,
> increase the barrier to entry for beginners.
In other words, vanilla GitHub issue search does address Raymond's request?
>
> Can Github search the past history on b.p.o as well?
That seems unlikely to happen.
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