no way to search for absence of a tag

[James Henstridge]

There is no way to search for bugs that do _not_ have a particular tag set.

As context, Steve suggested that we map one of the Zope collector "Deferred" bug statuses to a "deferred" bug tag. But the way the Zope developers use the state at the moment, they'd usually want to filter out these bugs from their bug listings. To do this with a bug tag, they'd need to be able to search for all bugs that didn't have the "deferred" tag set.

[Björn Tillenius (bjornt)]

Untargetting this for now, since this keeps slipping. Will retarget again, when we have a better grip of 2.0.

[Richard Harding (rharding)]

Was just looking for some way to do this today. It would be helpful if there was a default tag available in the tag list called something like "No Tag Applied".

This way I could click that, see a list of bugs without any tag on them, and then go through and add tags to help me categorize them. So as someone working on bugs in a project I might go through once a day and see about tagging bugs that have no tags to help triage things

[Diogo Matsubara (matsubara)]

Please consider bug 203585 when implementing this feature.

[Geir Ove Myhr (gomyhr)]

Since - and + are not allowed as the first character of a tag, I would guess that -tagname would be an obvious syntax.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

This is also highly anticipated by the platform team, to filter out "apport-crash" bugs from bug lists.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

I just saw that there are two different requests here: (1) search for bugs without a given tag, and (2) search for bugs without _any_ tags. From the platform team's perspective we are more interested in (1).

[Gavin Panella (allenap)]

Martin, a branch to fix both of those problems has been reviewed and
is nearly ready to land :) Might be in edge tomorrow...

[Diogo Matsubara (matsubara)]

Fixed in devel r8572.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

This seems fixed released to me as I can use the search successfully. However, I'm hesitant to change the status as it is mentioned as being fixed in r8572 and edge is on 8193.

[Gavin Panella (allenap)]

The fix is in db-devel and db-stable r8148, and in devel and stable
r8572. The fact that the functionality is available is enough to
convince me that it's released though :)