Users doing bug triaging [LWN.net]

Users doing bug triaging

Posted Mar 3, 2009 21:13 UTC (Tue) by fb (subscriber, #53265)
In reply to: Users doing bug triaging by iabervon
Parent article: Ubuntu now offering mainline kernel builds

> In theory, there should be no problem with having your bug marked as a duplicate of some other bug;

IMHO both in theory as in practice there is a problem. In theory each bug should have its own report. In practice often there is already a lot of tracking info in one bug, which gets lost ni the cross fire after merging. Second, it leads to conflicting reports, which makes it confusing for whoever is trying to verify, or fix it.

> Personally, I think bug trackers should have support for a "me too"
> feature, where you find a bug in the database that you think is happening
> to you, and file an intentional duplicate (already marked as such) with
> your particular conditions.

Actually launchpad has something like you describe, as users can subscribe to a bug. So you as a developer could choose to look first at the one bug with 25 subscribers, and not at the one with just 2.

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