303536 - new (intelligent) freeform module request

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 22353

(Bugzilla :: Creating/Changing Bugs, enhancement)

Description

[Thilo Pfennig]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-DE; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050720 Fedora/1.0.6-1.1.fc4 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-DE; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050720 Fedora/1.0.6-1.1.fc4 Firefox/1.0.6

As many bug reports are alsready reported I had the idea if it would not be
possible to allow a free form input (maybe from a differen interface). If the
user submits the form there could be made use of modern technics that are also
used for recognizing spam and viruses in order to find out if a bug just typed
in (the summary) is already reported. The new module could count words, try to
compare sentences and special fields. As a result the user could be given some
results with a probability of similar bugs. If a bug is recognized as a
duplicate and approved as such, it could be added to a database like it is done
with spamassassin (like salearn --spam). With this technique the amount of
already reported bugs could be reduced. I would suggest taht this module is
tested external or cleary marked as experimental interface. Also for searching
bugs Bugzilla could present existing bugs that look similar. As there is a huge
amount of data in many Bugzillas I can imagine that testing this modules can be
very easy. It should use different tests also like spamassassin that all provide
some hint.

If we combine this feature with a translator this could also result in the
possibilty to enable users with different native languages that can not write in
english to provide more helpful feedback.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Thilo Pfennig]

I addition the module could ask questions after the summary is submitted.
I would expect that the existing bug reports get more editorial . SO that a good
bug reports uses the correct words for each function.

The questions of the module could ask for unkown words like:
"What do you mean with 'message pane'?" and give possible alternatives that are
extended with each confirmed choice like 

* A: maybe 'side bar' ?
* B: ....

Comment 2

[Frédéric Buclin]

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