Automated bug comparisons

[David Farning]

Martin Pool wrote:
> On 3/28/07, Duncan Lithgow <dlithgow at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> I expect:
>>
>> * The new bug reporting tools will result in a much larger stream of bug>
>> reports after Feisty's release.
>>     
>
> In general the guided bug-filing step that shows people similar or
> common bugs ought to counter this.  However, for crash bugs reported
> through apport, it's not really possible because not much of the
> stacktrace is visible to users.  If we put the innermost function name
> or two in the subject that might help.
>
> A related thing is that I now get mail every time someone duplicates a
> bug I oiginally filed; I'm not really interested in knowing about
> that.  I guess developers subscribed to the bug would want to see it
> though.
>
>   

The bughelper tool being worked on by the bugsquad is coming close to
what you are asking for.  Alas, it does not run in the data center nor
does it have a cool web interface.


Thanks
David