Bug 16474

Summary: error-report-web: refactor Search box to (1) make it actually work (2) allow more fine-grained queries
Product: [Yocto Project Subprojects] Error Reporting tool Reporter: Tim Orling <tim.orling>
Component: Error Reporting ToolAssignee: Tim Orling <tim.orling>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: Medium+    
Version: 6.2   
Target Milestone: 6.2 M2   
Hardware: All   
OS: Multiple   
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto: --- Type of Regression: ---
Verified: Documentation change: Yes (doc changes required)

Description Tim Orling 2026-10-29 19:06:11 UTC 
Related to #6541 and #9651.

Because of the sheer size of the database now, the Search box will never complete before the gunicorn (or uwsgi) timeout, which hangs to browser and is a TERRIBLE UX. Enforcing a shorter timeout (10 seconds) in Django works, but will also NEVER return a result, regardless of the input text in the Search box. Finer-grained queries using additional URL terms works fine, especially since halstead indexed the database.

What we need is to look at layerindex-web and see how the Search is working there and borrow ideas to refactor error-report-web. While we are at it, adding conditionals like AND/OR as mentioned in #6541 is a very reasonable ask and layerindex-web already has some of that capability.