Searching tickets

[Ben Gamari]

Simon Peyton Jones <simon.peytonjones at gmail.com> writes:

> I keep finding that 'search' in Gitlab misses things.
>
> Example
> https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/22715 mentions "Haskeline"
> (just look on that page)
>
> Yet when I go to
> https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/
> and search for "Haskeline", this ticket isn't reported.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
I belive that the search bar at the top of
https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/ only searches the issues'
title and description. However, in this particular ticket Haskeline is
only mentioned in a comment.

It is possible to search in comments via
https://gitlab.haskell.org/search?group_id=2&project_id=1&scope=notes.
Sadly, searching for "Haskeline" here turns up over 300 results and none
of which are the ticket you are looking for; I'm sure that the ticket is
in the returned results somewhere, but I don't think this would be an
efficient way to find it (although being able to sort the result set by
date would make this much easier).

For this reason I routinely edit issue labels and descriptions to ensure
that they mention useful keywords. However, even then locating tickets
can be challenging.

Cheers,

- Ben
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