[opensource-dev] [JIRA] Proposal - Default Search settings on jira.secondlife.com

[Dave Booth]

Opinions inline...

On 8/26/2011 12:34 PM, opensourceobscure wrote:

> PROPOSAL:
>
> 1) exclude "Comments" from fields where keywords are searched for

Agree

> 2) exclude "Description" too (this may be excessive but usually works for me)

Disagree on the grounds that excluding this one would negatively impact 
one category of benefits you hope to achieve, namely the reduction of 
duplicate issues. Users tend to express the same issue in different 
words when dealing with two similar fields on the same form. Searching 
both makes the target of the search "wider" in that the original 
reporter has expressed it two ways and the search (reflecting the way 
the SEARCHER thinks of the issue) is more likely to hit one.

> 3) replace the "OR" logic operator (which is implicit in searches)
> with the "AND" logic operator

Oh heck, YES. Include the "quoted multiword string as single search 
token" functionality too.

>
> I think that this would lead to a better use of JIRA for
> SL users willing to give feedback. More specifically,
> the number of duplicate issues may be reduced because
> the search for existing issues would be more efficient.
>