287207 - Add text of summary of bug marked as duplicate in each bug's comments

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Bugzilla :: Creating/Changing Bugs, enhancement)

Description

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

When marking duplicate, include text of summary field in each other's bug (the
dup and the one being duped). [similar to bug 125888]  Example:

in bug 24957

*** Bug 249372 been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
there are a large number of duplicate bugs but searching for: mybug, mybugs,
MyBugs etc doesn't turn them up

and in bug 249372

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 24957 ***
include duplicates in search

In a small way this might improve duplicate searches, given that the key words
in summaries can differ between duplicates. Right now, the summary is provided
on a web page when one mouseover's the duplicate entry (above), but this isn't
in the bug text so it is not searchable. 

This, in part addresses the comments of Bug 24957#c33 "another way of dealing
with this would be to take the summaries of duplicate bugs, and attach their
extra words to the summary of the origional bug." - which seems at the moment
not trival to implement.

Recognize this isn't a perfect idea - a bug's summary may change in the future -
but it may provide some progress.

Comment 1

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

This is a reasonable step which adds minimal additional content to comments but
could have a significant positive impact on searches.

Comment 2

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> This is a reasonable step which adds minimal additional content to comments but
> could have a significant positive impact on searches.

+1

Excellent cost-benefit ratio: Really simple to implement, big improvement.

Comment 3

[Frédéric Buclin]

Hum, the idea itself is good, but we are planning to implement bug 200202 instead, which will make this bug obsolete.