Re: https://issues.guix.info

["Clément Lassieur" <clement@lassieur.org>]

Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:

> Hi Amin,
>
>>> The search box accepts issue numbers (for *any* bug on the GNU instance
>>> of Debbugs), but it also supports a few special queries, such as
>>>
>>>     is:open / is:pending –> only open issues
>>>     is:done / is:closed  –> only completed issues
>>>     title:foo -> issues containing “foo” in the title
>>>     author:rekado –> issues that “rekado” contributed to
>>>
>>> Other supported terms are “severity”, “tag”, and “submitter”, but not
>>> all of them really work as they should, partly because of bugs in mumi,
>>> partly because of limitations in Debbugs.
>>
>> I think It would be neat to present these to the user, right on
>> the website itself.
>
> I agree.  I don’t know how to present these things nicely, but I’ll play
> around with this.
>
> BTW: “submitter:who” should also work now.  Like “is:…” it’s a rather
> expensive query because the result set from Debbugs has to be filtered
> locally.

Nice :-)  Thank you.

>>> - make the search bar look good
>>
>> Adding class="form-control" would be a nice first step.  Also,
>> it'd probably be a good idea to wrap the <form> in a div with
>> class="row", and use bootstrap grids to make the search bar and
>> the button smaller (by putting them in a column), and display the
>> above information about the search syntax in another column to
>> the right of the form.
>
> Thanks for the suggestions.  I read the bootstrap CSS docs and came up
> with something that I hope is an improvement.