Arun Isaac <arunis...@systemreboot.net> writes: > Hi Noé, > > Thank you for your feedback! > >> It seems the new design has removed the ability to sort by date in >> searches, which is a very important feature for me. > > We could bring back the sorting. But first, could you help me understand > what you use the sorting for? Would maybe, narrowing down your search > using a more targeted query suffice? Perhaps the "date:" or "mdate:" > search prefix is what you need? >
I use it to see if there are previous/pending patches for a given package. Having it sorted is very useful, for example I wanted to see the latest work on the package « discover ». > The original sorting feature was from a time when mumi listed search > results in the order of issue numbers, and the sorting feature was kind > of a crutch to make up for that. For the last 2 years or so, mumi has > been listing search results by relevance score. This means that the most > relevant result is on the top. My thinking was that this made the > sorting unnecessary. Think of how we don't sort results on Google > search. I was going for the same effect. > Relevance score is only relevant if you have enough keywords, and it doesn’t work so well on a single package name in my experience. > What's more, suppose you sort search results by date, this might > actually be putting a very low relevance search result on top. And, a > low relevance search result is probably not what you're looking for. The > sort feature from earlier was really a client-side hack. It ignored > things like pagination on the server-side. See > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/mumi.git/tree/mumi/xapian.scm#n252 > That’s only a problem if there are many low relevance results, but for package names that is rarely the case. >> I also find it harder to distinguish between open and closed bugs. > > I agree. That's a problem. I'm thinking we should only display open > issues by default. WDYT? For immediate use, you can add "is:open" to > your search query. > Seeing closed issues is very important depending on what I’m looking for. How about having a colored « open » indicator next to the tags (or as a tag)? Thanks for your work on mumi, Noé
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