277526 - have a dictionnary that regroups different spellings of one word into one, to be used instead of the others

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 198820

(Bugzilla :: Creating/Changing Bugs, enhancement)

Description

[Mathieu Pellerin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

I think this little idea could reduce the amoung of dublicates (at least a little).

Bugzilla needs a dictionnary with groups enclosing different ways of spelling a
word and when a user summit a bug or query for a bug, the core checks for those
words and replace them with one predefined word. A little demonstration might
help, so here it goes.

(dicionnary)
============
middleclick, middle click, middle-click, mdlclick, mdl-click : middleclick
============

all those words, if entered in the summary field or a query keywords field would
be replaced by only one word 'middleclick' ...

here's some results if a query some variants

search 'leftclick'  : return 1
search 'left-click' : return 8
search 'left click' : return 52

so if somebody has the habit to use 'left-click', he will miss 44 bugs, possibly
the one he's about to report

The middleclick, leftclick thing is quite simple but this could become a good
time saving method with other words.

With a good dictionnary, you would lower the number of duplicates and offer
better result for keyword queries...

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Mathieu Pellerin]

other exemple:

bookmark sidebar: 70
bookmarks sidebar: 61

in this case bookmark will show any summary with 'bookmark' and 'bookmarks' but
if somebody types 'bookmarks', 9 bugs won't be shown.

if you add this in the 'dictionnary'

====
bookmark sidebar, bookmarks sidebar : bookmarks sidebar 
====

you remove potential duplicates with people that couldn't see the 9 bugs

Comment 2

[Frédéric Buclin]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 198820 ***