On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 6:12 PM,  <bugreporte...@hushmail.com> wrote:
>>What exactly are you looking for?  We don't have any user with ID
>>that
>>matches that regular expression, e.g., a line starting with "ooo"
>>followed immediately by a line end.
>
> I was trying to use ^ as a beginning of a string and $ as the end of a 
> string. To tell BZ that I just want ooo and nothing else like os_ooo.
>
>>A simpler way to describe this query might be to do an advanced
>>query of:
>>
>>Assignee: (contains none of the strings) openoffice, ooo, issues,
>>AOO
>>security list, secur...@openoffice.apache.org
>
> The problem here is that os_ooo, mst.ooo and wuyan.ooorg are also excluded 
> but I only want to exclude ooo (besides the other like openoffice...).
>
>>It depends on the field type.  But in most cases, such as with the
>>assignee field, it is a string comparison.
>
> So why does it not work when I just use ooo as the value? I also tried using 
> "ooo" and 'ooo' but that did not work either.
> Is there a special way to tell BZ that ooo is a string, that I might have 
> missed?
>

Can you give a link to a defect report from "ooo" that is incorrectly
showing up in your query?

-Rob


> thx
>
> On 27.09.2013 at 4:29 PM, "Rob Weir" <robw...@apache.org> wrote:
>>
>>On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 9:39 AM,  <bugreporte...@hushmail.com>
>>wrote:
>>>>I'd use the "Search by People" section.  The first of the three
>>>>groups
>>>
>>> The problem is, in the final step (atm I'm just tinkering) I
>>want to exclude more than three assignees from the search.
>>> some of the assignees I'd like to exclude:
>>> openoffice
>>> ooo
>>> "AOO security list"
>>> issues
>>> secur...@openoffice.apache.org
>>>
>>>>If you use the advanced search options then you need to select
>>>>"matches regular expression" rather than "is equal to".
>>>
>>> Using ^ooo$ and "matches regular expression" does not work for
>>me.
>>>
>>
>>What exactly are you looking for?  We don't have any user with ID
>>that
>>matches that regular expression, e.g., a line starting with "ooo"
>>followed immediately by a line end.
>>
>>A simpler way to describe this query might be to do an advanced
>>query of:
>>
>>Assignee: (contains none of the strings) openoffice, ooo, issues,
>>AOO
>>security list, secur...@openoffice.apache.org
>>
>>> Can you tell what "is equal to" can be used for? (only int,
>>double, ...?)
>>>
>>
>>It depends on the field type.  But in most cases, such as with the
>>assignee field, it is a string comparison.
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>-Rob
>>
>>>>you will end up owing Scotch to Apache Infra admins for the
>>>>extra
>>>>work they have to do to clean up the mess ;-)
>>>
>>> I see.
>>>
>>> thx
>>>
>>> On 26.09.2013 at 11:47 PM, "Rob Weir" <robw...@apache.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 4:50 PM,  <bugreporte...@hushmail.com>
>>>>wrote:
>>>>>>> You can use the criterion "Time Since Assignee Touched" "is
>>>>>>>greater than"
>>>>> Did not see that thanks.
>>>>>
>>>>>>Back in July I reset the assignment for all issues that had not
>>>>>>changed in more than 2000 days.
>>>>>
>>>>> Today is September 26, 2013 so that means that 2000 days before
>>>>today would be April 5, 2008. [1]
>>>>> Can you please tell me why the assignee of the issue
>>>>https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=20525  was not
>>reset?
>>>>> Cause when looking at the History there is nothing after 2004-
>>06-
>>>>17 15:00:01 UTC (besides a comment on 2007-05-03 12:24:50 UTC ).
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>I used the "time since assignee touched" field. It looks like in
>>>>this
>>>>case the assignee changed his email address.  I don't know if
>>that
>>>>impacted the query strategy.  But you can find all the issues
>>that
>>>>I
>>>>did reset by searching for the comment string "Reset assignee on
>>>>issues not touched by assignee in more than 2000 days."
>>>>
>>>>> Can you please tell me how to find bugs of a certain assignee?
>>>>> I want to get all bugs listed which are from the assignee ooo .
>>>>> When (in the Advanced Search) I select "Assignee" in "Custom
>>>>Search"  and  choose "is equal to" and then set
>>>>> the value to ooo it does not work. Using "is equal to any of
>>the
>>>>strings" instead of "is equal to" does
>>>>> not work as well -> ?????
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>I'd use the "Search by People" section.  The first of the three
>>>>groups
>>>>there is already set up to search for assignee.  One of the
>>search
>>>>options is for "contains", so you can then just enter "ooo".
>>>>
>>>>> Trying to use regular expression and typing ^ooo$ does also not
>>>>work. (^ooo works but then I get also things like ooo*)
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>If you use the advanced search options then you need to select
>>>>"matches regular expression" rather than "is equal to".
>>>>
>>>>>>We all know who is active and who isn't.
>>>>> Did not know that.
>>>>>
>>>>>>Notifications are all-or-nothing.  A BZ admin can disable all
>>>>>>notifications, run a batch operation, and then re-enable
>>>>>>notifications.  But we have no easy way to notify only
>>assignees.
>>>>>
>>>>> What would happen if you leave the notification enabled and
>>then
>>>>reset all the assignee fields?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>It would not be pretty.  It would trigger notifications to be
>>>>emailed
>>>>to the old assignee, but also everyone that commented on the
>>issue
>>>>previously, or added themselves to cc.   So a rough guess, for N
>>>>old
>>>>issues you would generate 4x email notifications.   Doing this
>>for
>>>>a
>>>>handful, 10 or 20 issues is fine.  But not for thousands.  If you
>>>>do
>>>>this you will end up owing Scotch to Apache Infra admins for the
>>>>extra
>>>>work they have to do to clean up the mess ;-)
>>>>
>>>>Regards,
>>>>
>>>>-Rob
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> thx
>>>>>
>>>>> [1]http://www.convertunits.com/dates/daysfromnow/-2000
>>>>>
>>>>> On 26.09.2013 at 3:39 PM, "Rob Weir" <robw...@apache.org>
>>wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 8:41 AM, Regina Henschel
>>>>>><rb.hensc...@t-online.de> wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> bugreporte...@hushmail.com schrieb:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Stop! Don't invoke the bugzilla guru.
>>>>>>>> Looks like I made it. Will invastigate farther.
>>>>>>>> That's what I use now:
>>>>>>>> http://img18.imageshack.us/i/vk57.png/
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Are there other assignees we should exclude?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> You can use the criterion "Time Since Assignee Touched" "is
>>>>>>greater than"
>>>>>>> "900d".
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Exclude assignee secur...@openoffice.apache.org from search.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Have you count, how many issues are affected? For example,
>>with
>>>>>>>900d I get
>>>>>>> 322 bugs. With >360d and restriction to 99000<BugID <=
>>100000 I
>>>>>>get 70 bugs,
>>>>>>> which is 7%. So expand to more than 120000 issues gives
>>perhaps
>>>>>>about 8000
>>>>>>> matches. Other complex queries I have tried need so long,
>>that
>>>>I
>>>>>>have not
>>>>>>> wait. I guess, that a direct SQL search in the data base can
>>>>use
>>>>>>more
>>>>>>> efficient search statements than using the UI.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I like, that former, inactive assignees are reset to the new
>>>>>>default. But
>>>>>>> such bulk change needs, that the general notifications are
>>>>>>suppressed. I
>>>>>>> don't know, whether it is possible to only inform the
>>>>assignees.
>>>>>>So please
>>>>>>> wait till it is morning for Rob and he has a change to read
>>>>this.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Notifications are all-or-nothing.  A BZ admin can disable all
>>>>>>notifications, run a batch operation, and then re-enable
>>>>>>notifications.  But we have no easy way to notify only
>>assignees.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Back in July I reset the assignment for all issues that had not
>>>>>>changed in more than 2000 days.   543 issues were reset in that
>>>>>>action.  I've also done other resets for issues assigned to
>>>>defunct
>>>>>>openoffice.org, novell.com, sun.com and oracle.com email
>>>>addresses.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>There may be others that could be reset as well, but I'm not
>>sure
>>>>>>it
>>>>>>really helps anything.  As a practical matter, no active
>>>>developer
>>>>>>will avoid fixing an issue just because it is assigned to
>>someone
>>>>>>else
>>>>>>who is not longer active.  We all know who is active and who
>>>>isn't.
>>>>>>And even if we did reset everything to the default, and only
>>had
>>>>>>currently active developers make self-assignments, this
>>>>information
>>>>>>would be out of date again within a year.   Unless someone
>>wants
>>>>to
>>>>>>monitor and remind developers and testers on an ongoing basis,
>>>>the
>>>>>>database reverts to its natural chaotic state.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Things that need constant reminding:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>1) Unconfirmed issues need to be tested and either confirmed or
>>>>>>closed
>>>>>>
>>>>>>2) Unconfirmed issues where we are waiting for more information
>>>>>>from
>>>>>>the user -- if the user does not respond we need to close the
>>>>issue
>>>>>>
>>>>>>3) Issues that are targetted to be fixed in a given release but
>>>>are
>>>>>>not -- these need to have their target set back to the default
>>>>>>
>>>>>>4) Issues that are marked as fixed in a release need to be
>>tested
>>>>>>and
>>>>>>marked as resolved if they are actually fixed.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>As a BZ Admin I can help get us to a "clean slate" on some of
>>>>these
>>>>>>items, but we really need someone (or a group of volunteers) to
>>>>>>take
>>>>>>the lead on maintaining the quality of the BZ issues by
>>>>>>reminding/nagging the rest of us to keep our issues up to date.
>>>>>>There are a lot of report and charting options in BZ, but it
>>>>>>requires
>>>>>>some knowledge to make the most of them.    I'm happy to help
>>get
>>>>>>someone started on this if anyone is interested.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Regards,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>-Rob
>>>>>>
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