I think we are acting like it all has to be done manually which is simply not true. Why are we tackling bug triage as something that only a human can do? Computers are good a repetitive tasks. A little bit of intelligent use of technology would reduce the "burden" on all of our developers. KDE has semantic technology, use it. Or if that isn't good enough there has to be another route. We can find possible duplicates by matching debug text ranked by percent of similarity. 50% and below most likely not a duplicate. 50% - 75% possibly a dup, if 75% and up probably a dup. Then auto assign it to the correct original bug. Dups could than be used as gage of how common the bugs is and there for how important. Again these bugs could level up so to speak and would reduce most duplicates fast. Next we could also use a Bayesian filter to find "useless" (or rather bugs that need more info to be acted on) bug posts. Here we have the bot auto ask for required info. Final anything with a diff or patch attached should be run thru a formatter like kdevelop uses, automatically push to review board, and inform the bug submitter of the change of venue.
The only thing left is to mechanical Turk the cases were the system doesn't or can't know what to do and actual bug killing. Will the system be perfect? Absolutely not. It will be better the leaving thousand of bugs to simple be closed cause they no longer apply to our new version. Yes. Will it help make it KDE look like a more pro-active and considerate community? Yup. Either way I think you agree that humans are taking to much of the brunt of the work and it can be shifted to computers. Sincerely, Joshua L. Blocher verbalshadow >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<
