Boolean Chart Redesign

[Benjamin Smedberg]

On 7/17/10 6:09 PM, Max Kanat-Alexander wrote:

> 	As such, I'd like to propose a redesign of what we currently call
> "boolean charts" into a system that is able to do arbitrary logical
> groupings. Here's how it will work:

I'll note that as an "advanced charts user" there are some things that 
cannot be adequately expressed even with arbitrary AND/OR groupings. These 
mainly relate to queries on attachments or flags. But this isn't clear, and 
sometimes I don't want that behavior. Especially when searching for flags on 
attachments, this appears to break down. e.g.

"Bugs with a non-obsolete attachment which has a review flag but the flag 
requestee is empty."

If I'm doing the current charts correctly, I think what I get is "bugs with 
a non-obsolete attachment with a review flag and a flag with an empty 
requestee". Which is subtly different. And if I didn't know how charts 
behave in practice, I would read the chart and assume it meant "bugs with a 
non-obsolete attachment, a review flag on any attachment, and a flag (either 
a bug flag or an attachment flag) with a blank requestee."

I would really like some clarity on how limiters such as "attachment is 
obsolete" and "Flag requestee" and such are applied to attachment, bug 
flags, and attachment flags.

In addition, it would be really nice if we could have attachment queries, 
where the results link to particular attachments and list attachment 
metadata, instead of linking to bugs which you have to open and then look 
for the attachment which matched.

--BDS
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