Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=77356&edit=1
ID: 77356
User updated by: chealer at gmail dot com
Reported by: chealer at gmail dot com
Summary: ITS: Prevent marking tickets as duplicates without
specifying original report
Status: Wont fix
Type: Feature/Change Request
Package: Website problem
PHP Version: Irrelevant
Assigned To: cmb
Block user comment: N
Private report: N
New Comment:
Christoph, could you provide evidence that bugsnet has been superseded?
Previous Comments:
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[2022-01-20 17:06:32] [email protected]
Given that bugsnet has been superseded by GH issues, it is
sufficiently safe to assume that this issue won't be fixed.
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[2018-12-27 11:52:13] chealer at gmail dot com
Ah, thank you for the explanation cmb, I see what you mean but I did not mean
to suggest using any artificial intelligence, no. Sorry, I misunderstood how
Related reports works.
I was rather suggesting a field to explicitly define the report with which a
duplicate is redundant, as Bugzilla does:
https://www.tutorialspoint.com/bugzilla/bugzilla_duplicate.htm
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=548960
This field would appear when the Status field would be set to the value
Duplicate. It would also allow other improvements to duplicate handling, like
managing those who subscribe to a ticket automatically.
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[2018-12-27 10:54:19] [email protected]
Just to explain how that currently works: if a user refers to some
other ticket using âbug hash numberâ, the other ticket
automatically gets an entry âRelated To: Bug hash numberâ. These
entries can be filtered via the related reports âbuttonâ. See,
for instance, <https://bugs.php.net/77347>, which has been closed
as duplicate of <https://bugs.php.net/77278>. Only the latter has
a filterable related reports entry. So, basically no duplicate is
presently supposed to show any related reports.
Also, there is a problem regarding comments which contain
inadvertant referrals to other tickets. See, for instance,
<https://bugs.php.net/2307> which claims to be related to
<https://bugs.php.net/77349> which it is certainly not.
> [â¦] and would deserve a change in the system so developers
> cannot mark a ticket as duplicate when failing to specify a
> related ticket tracking the same issue.
Hmm, that would require advanced AI, wouldn't it?
Anyhow, I suggest to move the discussion regarding possible
improvements of referrals and duplicates to the php-webmaster@
mailing list, since a bug tracker is unsuitable for brainstorming,
which is certainly necessary in this case.
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[2018-12-27 04:53:28] chealer at gmail dot com
Description:
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I noticed a few tickets marked as duplicates without any indication of which
tickets they would duplicate. For instance, the following 2 tickets have their
Status field set to Duplicate, but the Related reports tab is empty:
https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=60024
https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=62132
As this is the result of changes by 2 developers, it looks like this is not
exceptional, and would deserve a change in the system so developers cannot mark
a ticket as duplicate when failing to specify a related ticket tracking the
same issue.
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