See: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=owner%3Adolske

owner is a shortcut for owner_idle_time (i.e. time since assignee touched), not a shortcut for assignee. What you want is either: assignee:dolske, or @dolske, which is even shorter.

Indeed, there is no shortcut for owner. If there ever was, it's possible that I removed it as part of the 3.6 update. However, there are full docs on what field names are available, I believe, using the question mark link next to the quicksearch box.

"Internal server error" is not a reasonable error message.

By the way, did "owner:" used to work? It wouldn't be too hard to add back. But I agree with Jesse, we should not be sending a 500 for this.

Yes, "owner:" was an alias/shortcut for "assignee:" in previous versions.

(In reply to comment #5) > By the way, did "owner:" used to work? It wouldn't be too hard to add back. It was working till Bugzilla 3.4 included, but we stopped documenting and officially supporting owner: since Bugzilla 2.20, see bug 76507 (so Bugzilla 2.18 was the last release where owner: was documented). This gave 5 years to people to update their queries. IMO, there is no reason to bring it back.

It's fewer characters. People like me don't "update their queries", they type new Bugzilla searches many times per day.

It costs us nothing to support it again, so I don't see why we shouldn't.

er, this doesn't actually fix this bug. I guess I should file a separate bug for owner:.

FYI, "assi" will also work now. Any abbreviation is accepted that uniquely matches a field name.

Comment on attachment 457882 [details] [diff] [review] patch - v1 Sorry, but no. Now you break owner as a shortcut for owner_idle_time. We removed all special shortcuts on purpose. I would be fine restoring owner if it didn't match any other field name, but that's not the case here.

Comment on attachment 457882 [details] [diff] [review] patch - v1 I've changed my mind, I'm going to allow this. I don't see any reason not to allow "owner". The actual ISE is about putting a non-date value into the owner_idle_time field, which isn't a bug I want to fix on 3.6, and is already fixed on 4.0. (Sorry about overriding your r- LpSolit, but I think it's OK to allow "owner" as an alias--I don't think it's really that important to search owner_idle_time.)

Also, I didn't actually remove all special shortcuts--there are still a lot of them, actually.

hmm.... what's the use case for owner_idle_time? My initial thinking on this is that's sort of an obscure field, and would probably be sufficient to let people go to the advanced search to get that. On the other hand, I suppose the folks most interested in searching that field would probably be management types who may find the advanced search a bit daunting. I'd see no issue with making a different shortcut for owner_idle_time (like "oit" or just spelling it all the way out or something).

I guess more to the point, being able to search for owner from quicksearch seems pretty useful to me, and it ought to work.

Comment on attachment 457882 [details] [diff] [review] patch - v1 So Dave has spoken.

Committing to: bzr+ssh://bzr.mozilla.org/bugzilla/trunk/ modified Bugzilla/Search/Quicksearch.pm Committed revision 7398. Committing to: bzr+ssh://bzr.mozilla.org/bugzilla/4.0/ modified Bugzilla/Search/Quicksearch.pm Committed revision 7342. Committing to: bzr+ssh://bzr.mozilla.org/bugzilla/3.6/ modified Bugzilla/Search/Quicksearch.pm Committed revision 7145.