Once upon a time, Rahul Sundaram sundaram@fedoraproject.org said:
Typo there. Regardless of that bugzilla doesnt search closed reports by default. Search them by default would waste a lot of time and users generally care only about open bug reports.
That's a cause of a number of dupes. Users care about bugs; if a report on the same bug is closed, they won't need to report the same problem (as it is presumably resolved and the closed report will tell the resolution).
A convenient shortcut that would be useful for Fedora would be a way to search "current" releases by default (e.g. 4, fc5t2, and devel at the moment).