Launchpad itself

Front page search should find projects + packages + project groups + distributions

Bug #3153 reported by Matthew Paul Thomas
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #3944: Launchpad-wide search function. Edit Remove
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Launchpad itself
Fix Committed
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Launchpad itself 10.12

Bug Description

Sebastien Bacher searched for "gnome-utils" from Launchpad's front page, clicked on the only result <https://launchpad.net/products/gnome-utils>, clicked "Bugs", and was confused that bug 3118 -- reported on the Ubuntu gnome-utils package, not the project -- didn't show up. (See also bug 3152.)

Similarly, Jean Christophe André searched for "gfxboot-theme-ubuntu" from Launchpad's front page, because he wanted to translate gfxboot-theme-ubuntu into Vietnamese. It didn't turn up at all, because it's not a project.

Variations on this problem will recur because the distinction between projects, packages, and project groups is vague for many people using Launchpad. Therefore, the Launchpad front page search should at least return projects, packages, project groups, distributions, and maybe even teams.

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Jorge Bernal (koke) wrote :

I'd extend that to all first order "objects" such as people, specs and bounties

Dafydd Harries (daf)
Changed in launchpad:
status: New → Accepted
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Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn (zooko) wrote :

The priority of this bug should be raised. Currently when I go to "http://launchpad.net", what I want is to see a "search" field where I can find the thing I'm looking for. (Sometimes this thing is a pre-existing bug report, other times it is a product.)

So far, it took me about five minutes of frustrating exploration of the launchpad site before I was able to find the bugs in launchpad so that I could post this note! That five minutes is enough to deter around 95% of users from using launchpad.

(Okay, maybe some of the users will be smarter or luckier than me, but for dumb, unlucky, impatient users like me, the lack of a search field on the front page is a show-stopper.)

Okay, now I am off to search for the bug that originally brought me to launchpad in the first place.

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Nick Demou (ndemou) wrote :

I've used a lot of bug tracking and issue tracking SW and I am as much dissapointed with the time it took me to search for the hidden "search" functionality of launchpad.
When I found out that "* Bugs" was the link I was supposed to click to search for bugs I was unplesantly surprised - I think that a "* Search" or "* Search for bugs" would be much-much better

Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
description: updated
Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
Changed in launchpad:
assignee: nobody → mpt
status: Confirmed → In Progress
Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
Changed in launchpad:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote :

This is still a problem: for example see bug 105290.

Changed in launchpad:
assignee: mpt → nobody
status: Fix Committed → Confirmed
description: updated
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Laur Mõtus (vprints) wrote :

A bug that's confirmed and been here a year and a half ?
Medium priority isn't enough to fix it ?

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Shirish Agarwal (shirishag75) wrote :

Apparently not, or they are waiting for something back-end to mature & handle all this stuff, who knows. Anyays, subscribed.

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Launchpad QA Bot (lpqabot) wrote : Bug fixed by a commit

Fixed in stable r11965 <http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~launchpad-pqm/launchpad/stable/revision/11965>.

Changed in launchpad-foundations:
assignee: nobody → Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
milestone: none → 10.12
tags: added: qa-needstesting
Changed in launchpad-foundations:
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
tags: removed: qa-needstesting
Henning Eggers (henninge)
tags: added: qa-needstesting
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Curtis Hovey (sinzui) wrote :

These bug tags are wrong, and the qa bot is wrong. This bug is not related to bug 3152, and this bug was fixed more than a year ago.

tags: added: qa-ok
removed: qa-needstesting
Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
Changed in launchpad:
assignee: Curtis Hovey (sinzui) → nobody
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