2-stage duplication marking
Henrik Nilsen Omma
henrik at ubuntu.com
Sat Dec 16 19:02:58 UTC 2006
Hi,
I'm trying out a new way of tracking duplicates for tricky packages.
Marking duplicates is a good way of reducing the sheer volume of bugs
but it can also be hazardous because marking dupes based on their
symptoms might result in dropping bug reports that relate to different
causes.
I've been scratching my head over some of these, as I'm sure you have
all done as well. I'm thinking we should try to combine some of that
pondering in a more structured way.
So I propose setting up wiki pages for potential duplicate farms on
large packages. I've started with ubiquity:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingUbiquity/DupCandidates
In that case you can see that I've actually set up a dupe farm for a
rather weak case, where we still don't understand what is wrong. I've
cleared it with the developer and I'm linking back to the wiki page from
the bug to explain the reasoning.
I could imaging categories starting out as weak candidates for dupes and
having the case strengthen as more people compare the cases, we get logs
and the maintainers have a look. Once we are fairly sure we can mark the
dupes in Malone.
Oh, and these pages can of course be used as sources for the info files
in bughelper eventually as well.
Henrik
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