How to know if a bug has been reported before?

[rhe]

On 09/02/2009 05:40 AM, Kevin Verma wrote:
> +1
> Fedora package db web interface is also useful to list all bugs of a
> package, perhaps there is a scope of enhacement to let users also run
> a search within listed bugs there.
> ~kevin
>
> On 2009-09-02, James Laska<jlaska at redhat.com>  wrote:
>    
>> On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 11:15 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
>>      
>>> On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 10:35 +0800, rhe wrote:
>>>        
>>>> Greeting guys,
>>>>
>>>> Hi, when a bug is found, is there any way to check out if this bug has
>>>> been reported or not? I did it just by searching the key words in
>>>> bugzilla. But I think there may be other ways better than that. do you
>>>> have any idea to share with me?
>>>>          
>>> That's pretty much it. I sometimes do a Google search as well (search
>>> keywords with site:bugzilla.redhat.com) - it sometimes finds things
>>> Bugzilla's own search misses. If the bug is in a fairly small component,
>>> you can do a search for all bugs reported on that component in Rawhide,
>>> and have a quick scan through; that's more reliable in the case where
>>> the other person who reported the bug didn't think of the same keywords
>>> as you :)
>>>        
>> I do just about the same as Adam suggests.  Sometimes that
>> "site:bugzilla.redhat.com" google search is fastest.  I also have a few
>> firefox smart keyword bookmarks setup
>> (http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Smart+keywords and
>> http://johnbokma.com/firefox/keymarks-explained.html) for searches that
>> I frequently do.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> James
>>
>>      
>    
Thank you all. It's helpful and I will try them next time when I find a 
new bug. :-D

Best wishes,
Rui He

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