Malone suggestions: bug-filing advice and dupe-finder

[vid]

Hi

On 4/12/06, Henrik Nilsen Omma <henrik at ubuntu.com> wrote:
{snip}
>
> Another major task in triaging is finding duplicates. The person who
> makes the initial report may often be in a good position to spot a
> duplicate because he/she knows the situation or hardware in question
> well and might have a better chance at recognising a similar report than
> some random person (me in this case) helping out with bug triage.
>
> However, the original submitter may not know Malone well enough to do an
> effective search for it or not be motivated enough to do one. One
> possible solution is to have the person report the bug and then have
> Malone do a fuzzy search for similar content on bugs reported on the
> same package. This could be a general word comparison, but each package
> could also have certain key words defined for it that would weight in
> strongly in finding matches. For xorg this would be 'wxga', 'i915',
> 'nvidia', 'crash', 'gdm' etc.
>

... suggested, <https://launchpad.net/products/malone/+bug/37447> but
seems like the implementation may take a while :-(

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-vid