[Bug 20256] New: too hard to look up bugs by number

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20256

Summary: too hard to look up bugs by number
           Product: WineHQ Bugzilla
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: bugzilla-unknown
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]

wine-patches posts often say
  fixes bug XXXX
Ideally I'd have a greasemonkey script to turn that
into a link, but failing that, I'd like a really quick
way to search for that bug on bugs.winehq.org.
Now, you can of course click on the search box
and type in the number, but that's one click too
many; why isn't the search box focused by default?
So that's the first issue.  The second issue is that
wine lacks a short URL to link to bugs.  You ought
to be able to do 
  bugs.winehq.org/NNNN
to link to bug NNNN.  Several other big projects have
such a shortcut (gcc, chromium), it'd be nice if wine did.

[Bug 20256] too hard to look up bugs by number

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20256

--- Comment #1 from Ken Sharp   2009-10-06 13:38:05 ---
The search plug-in does all this for you.  Isn't that enough?

[Bug 20256] too hard to look up bugs by number

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20256

--- Comment #2 from Dan Kegel   2009-10-06 13:40:17 ---
What search plug-in?  And does it work with Chromium?

[Bug 20256] too hard to look up bugs by number

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20256

--- Comment #3 from Detlef Riekenberg   2009-10-26 16:56:02 ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> What search plug-in?

My firefox search field has a menu item "Bugzilla hinzufügen" (Add Bugzilla)
with the URL:
http://bugs.winehq.org/search_plugin.cgi
> And does it work with Chromium?

Does Chromium invent a new and incompatible way to define a search provider?

[Bug 20256] too hard to look up bugs by number

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20256

--- Comment #4 from Dan Kegel   2009-10-26 17:15:15 ---
Sigh.  I just meant, it'd be nice to have a non-browser-specific way
to do this, one that doesn't require special configuration.

[Bug 20256] too hard to look up bugs by number

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20256

Xavier Vachon  changed:

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--- Comment #5 from Xavier Vachon  2011-04-04 20:27:43 CDT ---
Is this still relevant?

[Bug 20256] too hard to look up bugs by number

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20256

--- Comment #6 from Dan Kegel  2011-04-04 21:07:30 CDT ---
Yes.

[Bug 20256] too hard to look up bugs by number

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20256

--- Comment #7 from Jerome Leclanche  2011-04-05 03:12:22 CDT ---
Created an attachment (id=33944)
 --> (http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=33944)
Autofocus patch

This patch will enable autofocus on the search field for browsers that support
the autofocus attribute.

For older browsers, you can add an onload
document.getElementById("whatever").focus() but I don't think that's worth it.

That said, autofocus should be used very wisely. I'm not sure it's a good idea
to add it; users may expect focus to be on the page rather than on the search
field.

[Bug 20256] too hard to look up bugs by number

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20256

--- Comment #8 from Bruno Jesus  2013-09-30 14:45:19 CDT ---
What about some sort of URL rewritting like in [1] to get the short bug url?

[1]
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2460044/rewriting-a-number-based-url-usin...

[Bug 20256] too hard to look up bugs by number

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20256

--- Comment #9 from Dan Kegel  2013-09-30 14:47:44 CDT ---
Yes, that's the kind of thing I had in mind.