If this is the case I thankfully do not have to create an account on that oh so painful Mantis site. I don't know how you guys cope with the slowness of mantis but after half an hour of trying to find out if this was relevant to any other report I just gave up.
I wonder why you had so bad experience. For me the search options work very well. I can search based on many criteria, like "
Reporter", "
Assigned To", "
Status" and any arbitrary word.
For example now I want to see how many open reports are there for Lazarus project. Hide Status = "
resolved (And Above)", other fields have default values.
Apply Filter gives result in < 1 second. There are 1740 open reports. Quite many ...
If I search open Lazarus reports with word "
generics" I get 12 results.
Searching for word "
generic" gives 47 results, again very quickly.
I honestly don't understand why you find it difficult.
I remember it was slower some years ago. I guess there is a faster server now. Mantis is made with PHP which makes the screen update slower compared to some other languages. On the other hand PHP does not affect the DB query speed which is the biggest delay.
So, in my experience it works well and is fast enough.
Another issue is that the Mantis version is old. It really should be updated. I would not expect more speed but there are improvements for security, mail notifications and maybe usability, too. Now the mail notifications use some external script.