I think thats a good idea. Maybe have it so that duplicate bugs kind of <span style="font-style: italic;">merge </span>into one master bug report (to some degree)?<br><br>- Cody<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/18/06,
<b class="gmail_sendername">Lex Hider</b> <<a href="mailto:floss@lex.hider.name">floss@lex.hider.name</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Wednesday 18 October 2006 09:17, Colin Watson wrote:<br>> In an attempt to be helpful, a bug triager just went through a bunch of<br>> my bugs that I marked as duplicates of other bugs ages ago, and set the<br>> Status of all of them to Rejected.
<br>><br>> This causes Malone to send huge piles of e-mail to huge numbers of<br>> people. For each bug you mark as Rejected, it sends an e-mail to every<br>> subscriber to the duplicate bug *target*, i.e. the master bug (at least,
<br>> this is my belief based on complaints received). In this case, the bug<br>> target was one of the most-duplicated bugs in Ubuntu, with so many<br>> subscribers that Malone currently times out trying to display the bug at
<br>> all. The effect is to waste lots of people's time, and bug reporters put<br>> off ever filing Ubuntu bugs again because of the amount of e-mail they<br>> get as a result.<br>><br>> More to the point, though, rejecting duplicate bugs is totally
<br>> unnecessary. It's already marked as a duplicate, and excluded from<br>> Malone searches by default, so why bother? "Rejected" also sends the<br>> wrong message to a bug reporter who sent a perfectly valid bug report,
<br>> but just happened not to be the first person to do so (or, in some<br>> cases, not even that; the responsible developer might simply have first<br>> identified the issue from a different bug). And, if the bug turns out
<br>> not to be a duplicate as previously thought, then messing with the<br>> status means that there's one more thing to revert when restoring the<br>> bug's independent existence.<br>><br>> Please don't contribute to the increasing entropy of the universe -
<br>> don't touch the status of duplicate bugs!<br>><br><br>I was wondering to what extent this could be fixed on the launchpad side. If<br>it's a bad idea to reject duplicate bugs, why not make it impossible?<br><br>
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