188815 - likely duplicates / related bugs feature

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 22353

(Bugzilla :: Query/Bug List, enhancement)

Description

[Brant Gurganus]

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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:

Comment 1

[Brant Gurganus]

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.

Comment 2

[mental]

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.

Comment 3

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

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.

Comment 4

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

See also bug 12286

Comment 5

[Christian Reis]

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. 

Comment 6

[Brant Gurganus]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 22353 ***

Comment 7

[Daniel Wang]

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