Eclipse Bug Search
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009, 08:05:16 +0000, Gunnar WagenknechtHow would you like to search Bugzilla? I played a bit with some stuff we have in CloudFree and that’s the result. Tell me what you think. BTW, we really should get Bugzilla back into the search engines. There is great content in bugs and the Bugzilla SQL statements will never give a great search experience.
March 18th, 2009 at 10:22
Wow, this is really impressive!
Could you please detail a bit how CloudFree helped to create this cool search interface, cause it is still a bit fuzzy to me…
March 18th, 2009 at 10:39
The underlying e-commerce concept is called “Guided Navigation” (or faceted classification). In CloudFree we created the listings story to implement this. A default implementation based on Apache Solr is available in CVS. It’s also possible to write an implementation based on FAST or FACT-Finder technology.
But we recognized that the concept is equally applicable to a lot more domains than online shops. It’s about presenting information to users in a scalable and easy to navigate/search way. That’s why I created this example using Bugzilla bugs. The frontend is just a GWT based UI. I tried using the history tokens to have some history and link support. But the frontend could also be a PHP website using more search engine friendly URLs.
March 18th, 2009 at 12:27
That is simply avesome!
But could you please add support for “Enter” in the search field?
March 18th, 2009 at 14:17
Yes, noticed that too. Will do with the next update.
April 15th, 2009 at 10:56
Is the bug search still usable?
It’s currently responding with an empty page.
April 15th, 2009 at 11:05
Thanks for the remainder. Someone restarted the machine but not the process. I started it again. We had a discussion at EclipseCon and the webmasters would like to run it on Eclipse.org. Until then I’ll try to keep it running there.
May 13th, 2009 at 22:20
Gunnar could you please add the product and the version to the list? I want to see bugs that are reported on the latest milestone, e.g. 3.5 M7 so that i can quickly decide if the bug was already reported. Now I have to wade through all the bugs to see if it is was already reported for the 3.5M7 milestone.
May 13th, 2009 at 22:35
Could you also add a “Report new bug” link?
May 14th, 2009 at 7:33
Hi Wim, That’s why there are filters. You could quickly apply a filter to get only bugs reported for version 3.5. You can also get a list of all bugs scheduled for 3.5M7. Note, you can’t get a list of bugs reported agains 3.5M7 because that information is not available in Eclipse Bugzilla.
July 19th, 2009 at 10:42
Hi Gunnar,
again, the page is not responding
Is there any progress on hosting this on eclipse.org?
Greetings,
Ralf
September 15th, 2009 at 8:14
Do you know Eclipse bug under which I can find if your search engine will be run on Eclipse servers?
I really miss it
September 15th, 2009 at 9:03
Hi Ralf,
thanks for the reminder. We got our v-server at Eclipse and I have hat to move the application over.
-Gunnar
September 28th, 2009 at 4:48
Hi Gunnar,
Seems like the app is down again.
I’d really like to try it out myself, but I cannot find anything downloadable in the CloudFree/Gryrex web pages.