User-specific default tag search parameters

Bug #567007 reported by Bryce Harrington
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Launchpad itself
Triaged
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

Please add a way to save default tags criteria for bug listings / search.

[Discussion]
Tags can be very helpful for organizing large collections of bugs. As a developer I find them helpful to filter down from a huge list of bugs to a more managable subset by constructing a suitable search string that exclude bugs with certain tags I do not care about.

For example, with Ubuntu development work, I do not care about PowerPC specific bugs since Canonical does not support that architecture. I also do not care about bugs that have not yet been confirmed to affect the current development release ('lucid' currently). So I use "ubuntu -ppc" all the time when browsing bug lists, but it's cumbersome to always have to type this into a search page.

As another example, the Inkscape project uses tags for platform affected, such as 'win32'. Linux-focused Inkscape developers would like to exclude win32 specific bugs. Similarly, win32 Inkscape developers would like to see *only* those issues.

So the idea is to have a way for individuals (or teams?) to specify a string of tags to use by default in all bug listings, which can be set and updated via their profile page.

Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
affects: launchpad → malone
Deryck Hodge (deryck)
Changed in malone:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Low
tags: added: search
Bryce Harrington (bryce)
tags: added: feature story-search
William Grant (wgrant)
tags: added: bugs
William Grant (wgrant)
tags: added: bug-search bugtag
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