Ubuntu-qa Digest, Vol 7, Issue 2

[Dave Morley]

On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 06:54 -0600, Andrew wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> more on this duplicate resetting tool idea.... I have another idea to
> be added. Is there a way, when setting a duplicate, that there be a
> system that double check the date of each idea, and then marks the
> latter idea as the duplicate?
> 
> 
> I've seen so many duplicates, that actually came before the one it's
> marked a duplicate of. I think a system that marks the appropriate
> idea would be helpful.
> 
> -Andrew Barney
> 
> On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 5:00 AM, <ubuntu-qa-request at lists.ubuntu.com>
> wrote:
>         
>         Message: 1
>         Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 04:02:17 -0400
>         From: Sa?vann <oxmosys at gmail.com>
>         Subject: Brainstorm - cancel duplicate
>         To: Ubuntu-qa at lists.ubuntu.com
>         Message-ID: <47FC7809.5080103 at gmail.com>
>         Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>         
>         Hi
>         
>         It happens regularly that people contest the decision of
>         making their
>         ideas a duplicate and that we want to set back an idea as "not
>         a
>         duplicate", but as a moderator, I don't have access to such
>         tool. If
>         this functionality does not exist yet, I believe that
>         implementing this
>         would avoid a lot of frustration from the people that post
>         ideas since a
>         lot of ideas often really looks like duplicate, but finally
>         are just
>         misunderstood or not well described.
>         
>         If setting an idea back to "not a duplicate" is available only
>         for
>         administrator, can someone set this idea back as not a
>         duplicate?
>         
>         http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/5578/
>         
>         The global idea is still to donate money but each idea
>         demonstrates a
>         different system.
>         
>         --
>         Sa?vann
>         
>         
>         
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>         
>         Message: 2
>         Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:33:00 +0200
>         From: St?phane Graber <stgraber at ubuntu.com>
>         Subject: Re: Brainstorm - cancel duplicate
>         To: Sa?vann <oxmosys at gmail.com>
>         Cc: List Ubuntu QA Team <ubuntu-qa at lists.ubuntu.com>
>         Message-ID: <47FC7F3C.6040505 at ubuntu.com>
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>         Sa?vann wrote:
>         > Hi
>         >
>         > It happens regularly that people contest the decision of
>         making their
>         > ideas a duplicate and that we want to set back an idea as
>         "not a
>         > duplicate", but as a moderator, I don't have access to such
>         tool. If
>         > this functionality does not exist yet, I believe that
>         implementing this
>         > would avoid a lot of frustration from the people that post
>         ideas since a
>         > lot of ideas often really looks like duplicate, but finally
>         are just
>         > misunderstood or not well described.
>         >
>         > If setting an idea back to "not a duplicate" is available
>         only for
>         > administrator, can someone set this idea back as not a
>         duplicate?
>         >
>         > http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/5578/
>         >
>         > The global idea is still to donate money but each idea
>         demonstrates a
>         > different system.
>         >
>         
>         We have it implemented in the devel branch and it'll be
>         uploaded with
>         the next set of fixes, probably today.
>         
>         St?phane
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I think there is a danger then of the better written example being
ignored.  I think that the best written should be the lead with all
others being marked as duplicates of it.  That would ensure that the
report had the best chance of gaining votes and being understood.
-- 
Seek That Thy Might Know
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