Do you pay attention to duplicate bug triaging?

[Jan Claeys]

Op do, 21-09-2006 te 12:09 -0500, schreef Brad Bollenbach:
> We've got issues with duplicate bug report spam, e.g.,
[...]
> One thing we're considering is sending out duplicate bug notifications
> at all, and how we can improve or fine-tune that. How many of you find
> these notifications useful:
> 
>   a. a bug you're subscribed to (directly or indirectly) is marked a
> dupe of another bug
> 
>   b. another bug is marked as a dupe of a bug you're subscribed to
> (directly or indirectly)
> 
> and, if so, why are they useful?
> 
> How much would it affect you if we just stopped sending those
> notifications? What if we stopped sending only b.?

If I were a developer (or someone else who somehow feels responsible for
a package), I would want to receive both (the duplicate bug might
contain very useful information).  When I just subscribe to a bug to
track its development (i.e. to see if/when it's fixed), 'a' might be
enough, but I wouldn't care about also receiving 'b'.

So I think a status quo would be good enough (and IMHO there are lots of
much more important things in launchpad that need "fixing" ;-) ).


-- 
Jan Claeys