Re: bug-buddy/bugzilla wishlist

[Christian Kirbach <christian kirbach googlemail com>]

On Sat, 04 Nov 2006 14:41:27 +0100, Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net> wrote:

> * bugzilla: "do not inform me by email when a bug has been marked as a
> duplicate of the bug that i am CC'ed on" user preferences option. (i
> know that you're already working on this, tia.)

see Bug 369324 :)
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=369324

> * bug-buddy: refuse duplicate crasher reports for bugs that are already
> fixed. this would be the first step to save much time - e.g. bug 351603

> disadvantage: if a bug has been marked as fixed *in bugzilla*, but this
> has not happened in cvs (some issue can be very hard to track), any
> potential duplicate reports which could show that the issue is
> definitely *not* yet fixed would get lost.

We may want to have some mechanism that compares the version of the
just submitted report against the report marked as FIXED. If the software  
is
newer than the version that is already filed (and known to be broken) it
has not been fixed properly.


> * bugzilla: (pretty vague:) exact "which dbg packages do i have to
> install" information available as "bad_stacktrace" stock answer,
> depending on the distro, the distro version, and the product name of the
> bug report.

That would yield 100 new stock answers. However it looks sane to me to do
create special stock messages for, say, the 5 most blamed products
(Evolution, nautilus etc).
I tend to add half a sentence asking to install particular packages, but  
that
really consumes loads of time.



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