It would be great if bugzilla had a free-form keyword or tag field. The current keywords are restricted to a fixed list, which makes them mostly useless for our purposes. The only keyword we ever used was 'easy'.
Use case in parsoid is bugs affecting several components or a common topic like images.
Our main work-around is stuffing keywords into the subject line.
Version: wmf-deployment
Severity: enhancement
See the "Tags" field (above, between "Keywords" and "Depends on") that was introduced in 4.4 (bug 56183 for reference) that we just upgraded to. :)
(In reply to Gabriel Wicke from comment #0)
The only keyword we ever used was 'easy'.
Not true; we have used many other keywords, such as shell, ops, i18n, etc.
(In reply to Tomasz W. Kozlowski from comment #2)
Not true; we have used many other keywords
"we" = presumably "Parsoid team".
(In reply to Andre Klapper from comment #3)
(In reply to Tomasz W. Kozlowski from comment #2)
Not true; we have used many other keywords
"we" = presumably "Parsoid team".
Yup.
Awesome to have tags now. I even created the bug just before the upgrade, but wasn't able to save it in time. So very timely ;)
Could the tag field be included in default searches too? Right now this requires an advanced search, which makes tags less useful than the old add-them-to-the-title work-around.
Primarily the search box in the top-right corner, but also https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/query.cgi.
I should mention that Tags are on a personal / account level - using the whiteboard might also work.
Top-right corner supports quicksearch, see https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/page.cgi?id=quicksearch.html for the full crazyness.
Wondering if that's sufficient.
(In reply to Andre Klapper from comment #8)
I should mention that Tags are on a personal / account level
Oh, I didn't realize that. Very different from how normal tags are working then, maybe the bugzilla devs didn't think the naming through very well.
- using the whiteboard might also work.
Indeed, never realized that whiteboard is really a tagging mechanism.
(In reply to Andre Klapper from comment #8)
using the whiteboard might also work.
That does it, thanks! Normal search does indeed include the whiteboard field.
Closing as worksforme as the functionality is there; the misleading-UI issue can be tracked elsewhere.