Less desperate issue search
22 Aug 2008
Wild card search just got less importance in the search functionality.
The old logic was to search for the exact word (e.g. "work") in the issue title and if nothing was found it would search with wild cards on either side (e.g. "*work*"), still on the issue title only. The problem with that approach is that it sometimes finds issues by the title that are too irrelevant before it finds perfectly matched descriptions or followups.
For example, if a followup contains the word work it should be more relevant than finding an issue with the title nonworking.
The new logic is that wild card searches are only done when nothing else is found by the exact word you're searching for. And when it does the wild card search it first does it on "searchword*" and then if nothing on that it tries "*searchword*".
