In package / project bug searches include link to the same search in related contexts

[Adrien Cunin]

In a tagged bug report, Launchpad should offer a link to the project-group/distribution tag.

So the URL ubuntu/+source/$package/+bugs?field.tag=$tag would also have some text saying: "There are XX bugs tagged with teh same tag the distribution" where that would be a link to: ubuntu/+bugs?field.tag=$tag

[Diogo Matsubara (matsubara)]

If I'm seeing firefox package's bugs and click on a tag, let's say ui, the displayed listing brings up bugs that occurs in other packages, like dpkg for instance, would be very confusing. Perhaps we should also display a link, like: "There are XX bugs tagged with the same tag in the distribution" and that redirects you to the distro's tagged listing. What do you think?

[Adrien Cunin (adri2000)]

Sure, that would be fine.

[Christian Reis (kiko)]

Should we display all bugs, including by default closed bugs, or just open bugs which is what we currently do?

[Adrien Cunin (adri2000)]

Just open bugs.

[Robert Collins (lifeless)]

I think this will be hard to make really nice - its a bit inconsistent to special case it for tags because for *any* given search in a subproject (e.g. project with a project-group, or package in a distro, or package in a derived distro) there are searches in the other related contexts with the same criteria that may be interesting.

What we could/should do is make all searches more portable across the different related contexts. I think there may be a bug for that, but I'm going to escalate this to high as part of our 'bridging the gap' initiative, and it can take that bugs place if we find it.

[Curtis Hovey (sinzui)]

I investigated this recently. I tried to fix this when I added the reciprocal links between packages and projects because once I saw a search fail, I wanted to play the search against the alternate target. This relates to several bugs that I cannot find after the merger of Lp projects.

1. search criteria needs to be preserveable for links. This mean a helper function that makes search links need to know about ever search option (we can even make this function remove usless params).
2. The package-project link needs updating and/or...
3. Add search again, Search in <location> links,

Bug 297624, bug 60332, bug 885, bug 258343