136631 - Change to Invalid Option is Missing after Resolved Duplicate

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 92515

(Bugzilla :: Creating/Changing Bugs, defect)

Description

[Felix Miata]

When someone leaps ahead of the bug reporter to mark as dupe a bug that was not
ready to submit but accidentally was submitted, the reporter should be able to
change the accidental bug submission to invalid anyway, but this option is not
present after resolved duplicate is applied. To provide the correct resolution
of invalid one must reopen first before resolved invalid can be selected.

Comment 1

[Adam Hauner]

Same feature could be usefull to change status to WFM.

Comment 2

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

Could you please explain how if you report a bug twice (even if once is
accidental) one is not a dupe of the other?  I seem to be missing your logic as
to how one is invalid.  By that logic, if one is invalid so then is the other
one... Invalid is reserved when a reported bug is not really a bug.  Eg,
"Mozilla's javascript reports that 1+1 = 2.  It should be 3"


...That said, this bug is just a duplicate of the bug to be able to change
resolutions without reopening.  (I can't find it though)

Comment 3

[Felix Miata]

Where is Mozilla's definition of invalid? I don't seem to be able to locate it.

To me, sequential bug numbers with similar or identical summaries from the same
reporter means something went wrong, either user error or Bugzilla error. A dupe
needs to be cross-referenced. Invalid does not.

Comment 4

[Andreas Franke (gone)]

It is common practice on b.m.o to resolve the second report of a double-submit
as a duplicate of the first one. I don't think it's worth changing that. I think
the reason for this practice is the principle that all resolutions need to be
verified. So if there's a double-submit, and the second one is marked _invalid_
because of this, the verifier (who needs to be different from the resolver, at
least that's best practice) needs to be able to verify that there's indeed
another report for this issue. Thus the verifier of the second one needs the bug
number of the first one, and that's what the _duplicate_ resolution provides
(while the _invalid_ resolution does not).

The definition of "INVALID" used on b.m.o can be found on
http://www.mozilla.org/bugs : 

	INVALID 
		The problem described is not a bug, or not a bug in Mozilla. 

Or you can click on the "Resolution" link of any bug, which takes you to
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/bug_status.html

Btw, I don't think this is an important issue :-)

Comment 5

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

I agree it should actually be marked as a DUPE, but the funtionality requested
is a dupe.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 92515 ***