Thunderbird:Bug Queries

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Use the queries below to:

• find a bug that matches a problem you are seeing
• learn what users and developers have reported or asked for

Most queries focus on "problems" (some narrowly focused), not user reported enhancement requests.

These queries are great examples for learning now to improve your own bug queries - click "Edit Search" at the bottom of a query page to see how the query was created.

Clear, reproducible bug reports are more likely to get fixed, and you can help improve them using Thunderbird bug triage. Queries marked "(triage)" are great starting points for that purpose. You can also contact us to help with Bugdays.

General Queries, General Information

Thunderbird bug reports are mostly found in bugzilla "products" which have multiple "comoponents":

• Thunderbird
• MailNews Core
• Calendar
• Chat

"Components" links on the left show all the bug reports for that component. A button to "watch" the product or component allows you to get email when activity occurs in the bug reports for that area.

• Chart of bug counts: (clickable) by component and severity (excluding crashes), Chart with only crashes
• queries specific to Thunderbird component (triage)
• queries specific to Mailnews Core component (triage)
• Meta bugs
• Subset of OS specific: Mac, Windows, *ux (may need adjusting to meet your needs)
• Crashes
  • TOPcrashes for Thunderbird - all products
  • crashes for Thunderbird - all products
  • Crashes in *non-Thunderbird* code known to affect Thunderbird
  • Crashes in thunderbird products lacking properly formatted top of stack in summary (triage)
• Past Bugdays

Function and UI based Queries

These queries use advanced query, typically accross multiple components, with multiple keywords. Most of these are great for picking bugs for triage.

• address book UNCO
• address autocomplete (compose)
• alert, biff, notification of new mail
• AppMenu aka the hamburger
• autocomplete, address
• body of message does not match header
• charset|mime|lang|unicode|utf
• default mail client settings and mapi
• deleting message/mail, problems (narrowly scoped, and excludes news and rss)
• offline/online
• get new mail
• Front end - pane
• junk | jmc (junk management control)
• ldap
• news (r) (excluding RSS)
• search | filter subcategories :
  • advanced search
  • faceted search
  • filters
  • global search/gloda/search all messages: front end, back end
  • quick filter bar (formerly quick search)
  • saved search|virtual folder|save folder not including bugs mentioned in bug 438257 meta incorrect new and unread indicators and count
• Spamassassin all bugs mentioning it
• tags|tagging (formerly labels)
• threading
• mail alert - see alert
• mail compose
• import/migrate
  • outlook+outlook express
    • all (245 bugs)
    • with patches (29 bugs)
• unified folders/smart folders

Cross Product Queries

These bugs which span mozilla products may impact Thunderbird:

• Time zone related
• Bugs that contain the words "thunderbird" or "tbird" in comments:
  • Core
    • General
    • Editor-related
    • JavaScript Engine
    • Installer
    • Themes
    • Widgets
  • Internationalization
    • Core -> Internationalization
    • With keyword: intl
  • NSPR + NSS
  • Toolkit

More Queries

• lightning/calendar update/upgrade problems
• slow when data / profile is on network drive (NAS, Samba, etc)
• "This folder is being processed" (last 650 days)
• shutdown hangs (including INVALIDs)
• Sev=major+critical, activity in last 90 days (includes FIXED)
• Performance issues that need data from a profile

• Open Thunderbird bugs with the most duplicates:
  • All time top 100
  • Hot in last 3 months
  • Hot in last 30 days
• Open Thunderbird & SeaMonkey bugs with the most duplicates:
  • All time top 100
  • Hot in last 3 months
  • Hot in last 30 days
• Open Core bugs with the most duplicates:
  • Core Core hot in last 14 days (includes filters, search, backend, networking)
    • NOTE: these queries can be customized - sorted, to show only open bugs etc.

• Bugzilla has shared queries, created by other people, for various states of Thunderbird. Go to Actions/Preferences/Saved Searches and search for "Thunderbird". Anyone with canconfirm privs can add their own shared query to the Bugzilla page footer by going to Actions/Preferences/Saved Searches from that footer..

References

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/describecomponents.cgi?product=Core
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/describecomponents.cgi?product=Thunderbird
http://www.gerv.net/temp/bmo-reorg.html 

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