This is a lovely example of the low bandwidth of text-only bug tracker comments. In person, this six-year discussion would have taken about 30 seconds total.
And with a sketch on a whiteboard (or even a built-in wireframe function in Launchpad Bugs) it would, I think, be clear that a "Search Again" button positioned immediately following a search field could not reasonably be construed as meaning "ignore what I just entered in the preceding field, and go to the form for starting a new search".
This is a lovely example of the low bandwidth of text-only bug tracker comments. In person, this six-year discussion would have taken about 30 seconds total.
And with a sketch on a whiteboard (or even a built-in wireframe function in Launchpad Bugs) it would, I think, be clear that a "Search Again" button positioned immediately following a search field could not reasonably be construed as meaning "ignore what I just entered in the preceding field, and go to the form for starting a new search".