No search facility for branches

[Michael Hudson-Doyle]

Splitting this out from bug #148226. Tim said there:

'''
Yes I agree that the search should include the project.

Perhaps even author / registrant too?

I have visions of supporting something like the google search, where space separated terms are ANDed together, and allows some prefix specifier, like site:uk restricts search to sites ending in uk. So perhaps something like:

   r, reg, registrant - restricting registrant to specified name
   p, proj, project - restricting to project
   n, name - restricting to name
   a, auth, author - restricting branch author

So to do a restrictive search you could do:
  "r:thumper p:loggerhead" to do a search of my loggerhead branches.

Whereas "thumper loggerhead" would give any branches where both "thumper" and "loggerhead" is somewhere in the registrant/project/name/summary of any branches.

I'd also like to see this search tied into the search bar in code.launchpad.net instead of it searching projects.

I know this is scope creep but I think a better solution delivered later is better.
'''

[Jonathan Lange (jml)]

This sounds like a significant chunk of work. In the next cycle, we should at least figure out whether we want this for 2.0 and get it ready to code. Probably needs a spec.

[Tim Penhey (thumper)]

This is a significant chunk, and as such, I've kicked it down to June.

[Jonathan Lange (jml)]

Tim, I've seen that you've done a chunk of work on this recently. Reckon we can get it into 1.2.3?

[Tim Penhey (thumper)]

Perhaps. I'm trying for it.

[Diogo Matsubara (matsubara)]

This bug is very similar to Launchpad Bugs bug 5594. More details about it in the blueprint: https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/malone/+spec/search

[Tim Penhey (thumper)]

Deferring again.

[Tim Penhey (thumper)]

This isn't going to happen this cycle either.