Braden McDaniel wrote:
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> See, Bugzilla has this voting system, where users can vote on what bugs
> they think are important. Problem is, you only get to cast five votes per
> product.
10 votes per component actually.
I see that you have Resolved 10 bugs as Duplicates
<http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?&field0-0-0=resolution&type0-0-0=changedto&value0-0-0=duplicate&field0-1-0=resolution&type0-1-0=changedby&value0-1-0=braden%40endoframe.com>
Were you already familiar with the originals or did you have to
spend time querying for them? The reason I ask is that there are
over 16,000 duplicates in the system (I've resolved around 500 of them).
Resolving a duplicate or two is indeed a trivial task, especially
if you are already familiar with the original report. However,
resolving many thousands of duplicate reports is not a trivial
task. Neither is verifying the resolved duplicate reports. And
it's also a non-trivial task looking at all those duplicates and
testing against them when trying to verify fixed bugs (which is
almost always done on 3 different platforms). By suggesting that
folks intentionally file duplicates you are doing a great disservice
to all the folks who spend many hours resolving duplicate reports.
Many of these people are volunteers who spend huge amounts of time
resolving and verifying bugs in addition to trying to find ways to
cut down on the amount of duplicates filed in the first place.
--Asa
