Closed Bug 188815 Opened 22 years ago Closed 21 years ago

likely duplicates / related bugs feature

Categories

(Bugzilla :: Query/Bug List, enhancement)

enhancement
Not set
normal

Tracking

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VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 22353

People

(Reporter: brant, Assigned: endico)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030110
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030110

I think a likely duplicates / related bugs feature would greatly increase the
chances of duplicates being caught.  Essentially, it should probably work by
comparing summary and initial descriptions with those of other bugs and create a
list of ones with high similarity.  If you ever look for related pages using a
search engine, that is the sort of feature that would be useful in Bugzilla.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
This could even be incorporated into the Bugzilla helper and ask the user if he
or she is sure that the bug that is being reported is not a duplicate of one in
the list.
If we ever get the logic for this hooked up in bug 22353, then it would be a
travesty for it not to automatically perform a search before filing a new bug.

Realistically, I don't see this being seperate from that implementation, so I
recommend marking this bug as a dupe.
I don't know how helpful this would be unless there were some standard to 
naming bugs. What I think would be better is to take a Loebner prize winning 
AI bot and teach it to learn from each bug so that it can triage for us by 
creating a list of such things as likely duplicates and bugs that have 
incorrect keywords.
See also bug 12286
Brant, could this be duped to bug 22353, or is it better described as a blocker?

I can see how this differs from bug 12286 -- the latter requests a *field* for
related bugs, this one suggests calculating it. 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 22353 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
QA Contact: matty_is_a_geek → default-qa
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