Search should rank exact matches as first rank

Bug #504676 reported by Tomasz Chrzczonowicz
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This bug affects 5 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Launchpad itself
Fix Released
Low
William Grant

Bug Description

How to reproduce:

1. Post a bug report or question.
2. Click edit next to "Affects" or "For:" respectively
3. Type "Launchpad" or some component, e.g. "Launchpad Bugs" in the text box

What happens:

You get huge amount of projects that seem to have nothing to do with Launchpad except being hosted there.

What this means:

If you want to assign/reasssign a bug/question to a Launchpad component, you need to know the codename for the component.

What should happen:

If you search for Launchpad, the first results should point to Launchpad and its components (rather than display results alphabetically, starting with Android and such)

Related branches

affects: malone → launchpad-answers
description: updated
Revision history for this message
Deryck Hodge (deryck) wrote :

It might be worth fixing Bug #471328 when fixing this one.

Changed in malone:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Low
Revision history for this message
Curtis Hovey (sinzui) wrote :

Since 20% is all bugs and questions do not pertain to launchpad, and most questions and bugs are in the correct componenet, I do not certain the proposed behaviour is correct.

Changed in launchpad-answers:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Low
Deryck Hodge (deryck)
summary: - Searching for Launchpad (components) while editing "Affects" in Bug
- Report and "For" in Answers is hopeless
+ Search overlay should top-post exact matches
Deryck Hodge (deryck)
tags: added: dhrb
Revision history for this message
Paul Sladen (sladen) wrote : Re: Search overlay should top-post exact matches

Had one earlier. Searching for 'Ubiquity' gives that (exact match) as the last match out of 20 results.

For 'Ubuntu' IIRC is considerably worse, which means people file bugs against "Ubuntu One" instead.

Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
tags: added: search
Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
summary: - Search overlay should top-post exact matches
+ Search should rank exact matches as first rank
Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
tags: added: disclosure project-picker vocabulary
William Grant (wgrant)
Changed in launchpad:
assignee: nobody → William Grant (wgrant)
status: Triaged → In Progress
Revision history for this message
Launchpad QA Bot (lpqabot) wrote :
tags: added: qa-needstesting
Changed in launchpad:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
tags: added: qa-ok
removed: qa-needstesting
Revision history for this message
Paul Sladen (sladen) wrote :

Wooohoooo! Congrats to the appropriate Launchpad Squad for nailing another LP papercut.

Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
Changed in launchpad:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
tags: added: target-picker
removed: project-picker
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