Thunderbird:Bug Queries

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[Add your query idea directly by editing the appropriate subsection of the wiki page. If the query/class of bugs is a documented priority for Thunderbird 3, please indicate by prefixing with "!".]

The following bugzilla queries may be used to find Thunderbird related bugs for the purposes of doing bug triage, finding duplicates, as a model for a more refined query, as a template to create your own query, or for general research. These queries primarily focus on problem bugs, and so do not include bugs which are enhancement request. In general, trivial queries will not be listed here. See Thunderbird bug triage for information about the triage process.

• note components and products, complications of multiple products+comp.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/describecomponents.cgi?product=Core
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/describecomponents.cgi?product=Thunderbird

• rate queries:
  • indicate those we care most about, for traigers who don't care what bugs to work
  • color code
• Blue sky - provide screen shots of Thunderbird UI and identify parts of those screens so that people use better|correct terminology for functions and referencing screen positions

General queries

Thunderbird: All components of Product="Thunderbird". Searches not necessarily mutually exclusive.

The date defined for old bugs is 2007-04-07, the day after the release of Thunderbird 2.0 RC 1, which became the final Thunderbird 2 - the only supported version at the time of writing. Thus, the date is used when triaging old bugs created before that date.

A chart of the searches in bold can be found here. Do note that the start of data collection for the chart is approximately 2008-03-20 and no data is available for dates before that.

• Unconfirmed Thunderbird bugs
  • All unconfirmed
  • Only enhancements
  • All unconfirmed excl. enhancements
    • Keywords
      • With keyword: crash/topcrash
      • With keyword: dataloss
      • With keyword: hang
    • OS-specific
      • (Windows-specific bugs in bugzilla tend to affect other OSes as well)
      • Linux-specific
      • Mac OS X-specific
      • Unofficial / unsupported platforms
    • Old bugs
      • Last created before 2007-04-07
      • No changes (incl. CC changes) in the last 30 days
      • No comments in the last 30 days (Search query capability not in b.m.o yet)
    • Recent bugs
      • Filed in last 90 days
      • Filed in last 30 days

Core: Searches include all Core -> MailNews, and Core: -> POP, IMAP, News and SMTP protocol categories. Searches not necessarily mutually exclusive.

Lag time for old bugs increased to 180 days due to longer history. Bugs found during the search may affect SeaMonkey or both SeaMonkey and Thunderbird.

• Unconfirmed Core bugs
  • All unconfirmed
  • Only enhancements
  • All unconfirmed excl. enhancements
    • Keywords
      • With keyword: crash/topcrash
      • With keyword: dataloss
      • With keyword: hang
    • OS-specific
      • (Windows-specific bugs in bugzilla tend to affect other OSes as well)
      • Linux-specific
      • Mac OS X-specific
      • Unofficial / unsupported platforms
    • Old bugs
      • No changes (incl. CC changes) in the last 180 days
      • No comments in the last 180 days (Search query capability not in b.m.o yet)
    • Recent bugs
      • Filed in the last 180 days
      • Filed in the last 30 days

Function-based Queries

Those whose queries are not trivial, i.e. not just one component or one keyword

• char|mime|lang|unicode|utf
• ?mapi
• offline|online
• Front end - pane
• !search | filter subcategories:
  • advanced search
  • saved search|virtual folder|save folder
  • quick search
  • filters
• threading
• news
• tags|tagging
• ?address book
• autocomplete
• mail compose
• get new mail
• junk|spam|jmc
• ...

Special Queries

Typically not restricted to the thunderbird domain, but have direct or indirect impact

• security - ssl, smime, NSPR, NSS
• editor related - core:editor + D&D, keyboard, selection
• core+general+comment has Thunderbird
• core+intl|keyword=intl+comment has Thunderbird
• js+comment has Thunderbird
• ?xptoolkit*+comment has Thunderbird
• ?widget*+comment has Thunderbird
• ?themes+comment has Thunderbird
• ?install

Additional Queries

• Open Thunderbird bugs with the most duplicates:
  • All time top 100
  • Hot in last 3 months
  • Hot in last 30 days

• Open Thunderbird & SeaMonkey bugs with the most duplicates:
  • All time top 100
  • Hot in last 3 months
  • Hot in last 30 days

• Open Core bugs with the most duplicates:
  • Core hot in last 14 days (includes filters, search, backend, networking)
    • NOTE: these queries can be customized - sorted, to show only open bugs etc.

• Bugzilla has shared queries, created by other people, for various states of Thunderbird. Go to Actions/Preferences/Saved Searches and search for "Thunderbird". Anyone with canconfirm privs can add their own shared query to the Bugzilla page footer by going to Actions/Preferences/Saved Searches from that footer.

References

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/describecomponents.cgi?product=Core
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/describecomponents.cgi?product=Thunderbird
http://www.gerv.net/temp/bmo-reorg.html