341740 - Incorrect user response should offer a fuzzed list of possible matches

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 341090

(Bugzilla :: Creating/Changing Bugs, enhancement)

Description

[timeless]

I just spent the last 7 or so submits trying to cc marcia, and assign to justdave.

first i botched justdave who is not @mozilla.org, but mozilla.com
then it turns out i typed macria@moz, i tried fixing it to macrcia@moz, but that didn't work, i kept trying to change the username but it took me a number of attempts to before i noticed that i had transposed the c.

expected results:
selecting [e-mail] should yield:

could not find [e-mail], did you mean [e-mail]?

logic used: corrections should be as few changes as possible to yield a result. changing the tld should be considered more optimal than changing the host even though org=>com is 3 letters and mo=>bug is 2.5 letters.

macria@moz to => marcia@moz is a single transposition (and all other transpositions of macria fail to yield any results).

incomplete bits (@moz isn't a valid host according to our rules) should be assumed to be correctly typed.

order of operations:
1. work from right to left
2. try transpositions
3. try wild matches

results should only be given if they yield a very small answer (not more than 3).

Comment 1

[Frédéric Buclin]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 341090 ***