Bugzilla Search Queries

These are things you might want to know about searching FreeBSD's Bugzilla.

$/!\$ Some of the queries below are visible and linked on the FreeBSD Bugzilla Dashboard. TODO: canonicalize more of them.

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Bugzilla Search Queries

Searches By Bugzilla Product value

search description	Recent count	comments
All Issues	11403	the displayed 10000 was a false positive for "overflow"
... within Base System	7488
... within Community	3
... within Documentation	606
... within Ports & Packages	3083
... within Security	2
... within Services	163

Searches Within The Base System product

search description	Recent count	comments
Base System: All	7488
... with Attachments named either diff or patch	1443
... with Keyword: needs-patch	93

Base System by Status

search description	Recent count	comments
New	3310
Open	3858
In Progress	320	See Also: Notes about Base System/In Progress

Searches Within the Ports & Packages product

search description	Recent count	comments
Ports & Packages: All	2934
Subject contains: 'new port'	248
... and is unassigned (Assigned to ports-bugs@)	158
... and is assigned otherwise	87
Ports & Packages with Attachment(s)	1583
… maintainer-approval +, non-obsolete patch, open or in progress, assigned to ports-bugs@ (not yet assigned to a person)	24	not yet refined to exclude bugs such as 246873, where (2021-11-11) maintainer-approval+ is for patches that are obsolete; does not find bugs such as 269081, where (2023-01-21) maintainer-approval+ is for something other than the patch
… maintainer-approval +, non-obsolete patch, new (not triaged), assigned to ports-bugs@	9
... named diff	544
... named patch	733
... named either diff or patch	1181
... named shar	100
... named diff or patch or shar	1253
Ports & Packages without attachments	1352
... and Summary contains the string "update"	83
... and has the 'needs-patch' Keyword	32
... and Summary contains the string "fails"	185
Ports & Packages with Keyword: needs-patch	183

Ports & Packages by Status

search description	Recent count	comments
New	1598
Open	1221
In Progress	268

Searches By Keyword

Example: "Regression"

search description	Recent count	comments
Keyword: regression	267
... in Base System	215
... in Ports & Packages	39

Searches By Flags

Example: "mfc-*"

(NB: these flags have meaning in the Base System product only)

search description	Recent count	comments
mfc-stable14	26
mfc-stable13	160
mfc-stable12	143	support ended 20231231
mfc-stable11	73	long OBE 20231225

Searches By Versions

(NB: these searches have meaning in the Base System product only) (also NB: I am not showing "CURRENT" because that is an ambiguous search.)

search description	Recent count	comments
15	29
14	96
13	867

Searches For Attachments

Ports Tree

The below assume "Product" = "Ports & Packages" and "Component" == "Individual Port(s)".

search description	Recent count	comments
Ports & Packages: All	2976
"Attachment is patch"	1154
... and "attachment filename contains either diff or patch"	1148
... and "attachment filename contains 'diff' "	526
... and "attachment filename contains 'patch' "	722
... and "attachment filename contains neither diff nor patch"	6
"Attachment is not patch" and "attachment filename contains either diff or patch"	221	many false positives for "logfiles in addition to patch" etc.

Base System

search description	Recent count	comments
Assigned to @FreeBSD.org but not bugs@	3284
"Attachment is patch"	1381
... and "attachment filename contains either diff or patch"	1380
... and "attachment filename contains neither diff nor patch"	0
"Attachment is not patch" and "attachment filename contains either diff or patch"	219	many false positives for "logfiles in addition to patch" etc.

With Maintainer Approval

all open, non-obsolete patch, maintainer-approval +: shared search | public search

sorted by assignee

Advanced Search

This is the page that is the superset of all of the above queries, primarily of interest to expert Bugzilla users.

Upstream reference:

Bugzilla Advanced Search Documentation

The Bugzilla "Custom Search" Page

The Bugzilla Search page has an area shown under the Advanced Search link called Custom Search. With it you can do such things as the following:

Custom Search
- "Match ALL of the following separately:"
  - "Keywords" "contains the string" "ABC"
  - [x] "Not" "Keywords" "contains the string" "XYZ"

Examples

all open, kde@: public search

sorted by ID.

Notes

We should standardize/cleanup search queries here. For example:

queries with all products where all products are in query is not necessary, as no products = all products
- https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?keywords=regression&keywords_type=allwords&list_id=534552&query_format=advanced&resolution=---
don't include (e.g. remove) url args that are the defaults anyway:
- &keywords_type=allwords
- query_format=advanced
- others