Do you pay attention to duplicate bug triaging?

Micah J. Cowan micah at cowan.name
Thu Sep 21 20:46:24 BST 2006


On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 12:09:22PM -0500, Brad Bollenbach wrote:
> One thing we're considering is sending out duplicate bug notifications
> at all, and how we can improve or fine-tune that. How many of you find
> these notifications useful:
> 
>   a. a bug you're subscribed to (directly or indirectly) is marked a
> dupe of another bug

I agree with HervÃ: I find this important and useful...

>   b. another bug is marked as a dupe of a bug you're subscribed to
> (directly or indirectly)

...and this one less so, for the same reasons he gave.

> How much would it affect you if we just stopped sending those
> notifications? What if we stopped sending only b.?

I think overall, I prefer to receive both, but I wouldn't really mind if
b. just went away altogether.

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