38850 - Store "Dupe of bug no XXXX" as field rather than text

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 25693

(Bugzilla :: Bugzilla-General, defect, P3)

Description

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

If Bugzilla stored, for bugs resolved DUPLICATE, the bug number it was a dupe of 
as a field, in addition to being text in the comments, this would make it much 
easier to e.g. create a list of most frequently reported bugs, by seeing which 
bugs were most-duped. See 
news://news.mozilla.org/8fc8ur%24dnr1%40secnews.netscape.com
for dmose's thoughts.

Gerv

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

this is discussed in bug 25693

Comment 2

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 25693 ***

Comment 3

[Cesc Noguera]

I believe the duplicate should be marked the other way round. Bug 25693 has more 
information than this bug. I'll try to mark 25693 as the initial bug and this 
one (38850) as the duplicate

Comment 4

[Cesc Noguera]

*** Bug 25693 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Jesse Ruderman]

reopening so these bugs aren't marked as duplicates of each other

Comment 6

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

>I believe the duplicate should be marked the other way round. Bug 25693 has
>more information than this bug. I'll try to mark 25693 as the initial bug and
>this one (38850) as the duplicate

Ummm, that's how it was.  And you just reversed it.  So now this one is showing 
as the original and 25693 is showing as the duplicate.

Comment 7

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Based on this comment:

>I believe the duplicate should be marked the other way round. Bug 25693 has
>more information than this bug. I'll try to mark 25693 as the initial bug and
>this one (38850) as the duplicate

And the fact that I agree with the reasoning in this statement, I am reopening 
bug 25693, and re-marking this as a duplicate of 25693.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 25693 ***

Comment 8

[Blake Ross]

vrfy dup

Comment 9

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

moving all closed Bugzilla bugs to the new Bugzilla product.
This batch is DUPLICATE/INVALID/WORKSFORME/WONTFIX
reassigning to default owner and QA in case of the bug being reopened.
Clearing milestones, since we really shouldn't have them on these types of
resolutions.  Sorry for the spam everyone...

Comment 10

[Markus Gerstel]

Verification got lost.