469018 - Show duplicate (dupe) count on show_bug.cgi

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Bugzilla :: User Interface, enhancement, P4)

Description

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

When you dupe a bug to another bug, it should up a "dupe count" and show it on show_bug.cgi. If the bug is reopened, it should lower the dupe count that it shows on show_bug.cgi. Often times it's hard to know how many duplicates a bug has, which is useful information for determining importance (just like votes).

These numbers are kind of show on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/duplicates.cgi so I know they're being collected. Would be nice to see them on show_bug.cgi.

Comment 1

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

Yes, this is a totally reasonable request. Really, we should be displaying dupes like we show blocks/dependson, also (we already have a bug for this, somewhere). Then this request would be very easy. It'd just be:

  Dupes (3): 1, 2, 3

Comment 2

[Guy Pyrzak]

This was discussed in a meeting the other day. I thought at first this was just a UI thing but looks like it is going to require some additional back-end work. I'd really like to see this one done though. Another interesting fact is you can only mark 1 bug as a duplicate of another bug, which doesn't seem so great. So another request would be that we also allow people to mark more than 1 bug as a duplicate of the current bug, because that happens!

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Really, we should be displaying
> dupes like we show blocks/dependson, also (we already have a bug for this,
> somewhere). Then this request would be very easy. It'd just be:
> 
>   Dupes (3): 1, 2, 3

 Bug 24957 -  (dupesinsearch) include duplicates in search
and
 Bug 216360 -  display bug + duplicate bug info on one screen, and/or search should do this too

Comment 4

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

(In reply to comment #1)

> Yes, this is a totally reasonable request. Really, we should be displaying
> dupes like we show blocks/dependson, also (we already have a bug for this,
> somewhere).

Bug 55436 - Need an easy way to find bugs that are marked as duplicates of the one you're viewing

Max Kanat-Alexander has ui-reviewed+ the following proposal from attachment 429960 [details] in bug 55436, comment 13:

> show_bug.cgi should include a list of "Duplicates",
> just as we currently show "Depends on" and "Blocks":

Duplicates:  678901, 789012
Depends on:  123456, 234567, 345678
Blocks:      456789, 567890

Comment 5

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

In bug 55436, comment 16, attachment 449438 [details], I propose to include the total dupe count, like this:

Duplicates (5):  678901, 789012,
                 and 3 indirect duplicates (_show_)

If that's accepted in the pending review by Max, this bug could be closed as a duplicate of 55436.

Comment 6

[Frédéric Buclin]

As discussed in bug 55436 comment 30, the exact number of dupes is irrelevant. It's not a high priority bug.

Comment 7

[Simon Green]

Attachment: v1 patch

Comment 8

[Simon Green]

To ssh://[e-mail]/bugzilla/bugzilla.git
   9f3d18d..526b329  master -> master