Closed Bug 336573 Opened 18 years ago Closed 18 years ago

Automatically check for duplicates on new bug submission

Categories

(Bugzilla :: Creating/Changing Bugs, enhancement)

x86
Windows XP
enhancement
Not set
normal

Tracking

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RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 22353

People

(Reporter: david.balazic, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3

I believe it would cut the number of dupes, if after filling in the new bug form and clicking "Submit Bug Report", the system would compare the new entry with existing bugs and list similar ones to the user, where he can decide to go on with a new bug or just add a comment to an existing one.

Reasons : 
 - (at least myself) users tend to use diffferent words for searching existinbg bugs, than they use in their new bug report
 - some don't even botehr searching for duplicates before submitting new ones


Reproducible: Always

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 22353 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 18 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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