Searching tickets

[Simon Peyton Jones]

>
> I belive that the search bar at the top of
> https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/ only searches the issues'
> title and description.
>

That is ... disappointing to say the least.

It is possible to search in comments via
> https://gitlab.haskell.org/search?group_id=2&project_id=1&scope=notes.
>

Alas that interface has no way to sort by date or anything else -- as you
say, not very useful.

Sadly, searching for "Haskeline" here turns up over 300 results and none
> of which are the ticket you are looking for
>

very very sadly

These days, search is basically a solved problem.  I wonder if Gitlab have
any interest in picking up a solution and deploying it?  It seems deeply
sad that Gitlab should be so deficient here.  When you have 20,000 tickets,
search isn't optional  any more .. it's a key tool.

I tend to use google with the extra keyword site:
> gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues, as it often has better search
> results than gitlab itself. It doesn't work too well for very recent
> tickets though
>

Yes: site:gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues haskeline
-fspecialize-aggressively doesn't find it.  Not working well for recent
tickets (this one is 2 weeks old) is a huge drawback.

Boo.  Thanks for responses though

Simon

On Tue, 24 Jan 2023 at 18:21, Ben Gamari <ben at smart-cactus.org> wrote:

> 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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