Launchpad itself

Prevent duplicates by suggesting products/packages holding targets of many other duplicates

Bug #37425 reported by Matthew Paul Thomas
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Bug Description

Both when searching and when creating bug reports about a product or package, Malone should suggest the products or packages where the bug report is most likely to belong instead.

For example, when you look through the bugs -- or start reporting a bug -- about the Launchpad product, Malone should suggest the Malone and Rosetta products.

This can be calculated by counting the number of duplicates for that product or package where the original bug was filed against another product or package.

Stuart Bishop reported on 2006-09-04 that of the 45382 bugs filed in only one place, 7134 (15.7%) were duplicates; and of these, 145 were duplicates of bugs that were filed in one different place. So helping the reporter find the appropriate product or package to begin with could save time for, on average, 0.3% of bug reports.

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Tags: lp-bugs
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Björn Tillenius (bjornt) wrote :

Matthew, I don't really understand what you want to do. Could you provide a real use case? Maybe it'd be easier to understand then.

Changed in malone:
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote :

As another example, when I search for a bug in Ubuntu's evolution package, at the end of the search results would be a link "Try this search in package evolution-data-server". Launchpad would know to do this because many bugs reported about evolution in the past had been marked as duplicates of bugs in evolution-data-server.

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Björn Tillenius (bjornt) wrote :

OK, I understand now.

Do you have any stats on how common it is that bugs are filed on the wrong product/package, and then marked as a duplicate for another one?

Changed in malone:
status: Needs Info → Confirmed
Brad Bollenbach (bradb)
Changed in malone:
importance: Medium → Low
Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
description: updated
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Björn Tillenius (bjornt) wrote : Re: [Bug 37425] Re: Prevent duplicates by suggesting products/packages holding targets of many other duplicates

On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 01:27:55AM -0000, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> + Stuart Bishop reported on 2006-09-04 that of the 45382 bugs filed in
> + only one place, 7134 -- or 15.7% -- were duplicates of bugs that were
> + filed in one different place. So helping the reporter find the
> + appropriate product or package to begin with could save time for, on
> + average, at least one out of every seven bugs.

These numbers don't seem correct to me. From reading Stuart's email,
7134 of the 45382 bugs were duplicates in general. Only 145 were
duplicates filed in a different place.

Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
description: updated
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Brad Bollenbach (bradb) wrote :

On 2-Oct-06, at 10:14 PM, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:

> ** Description changed:

[snip]

> Stuart Bishop reported on 2006-09-04 that of the 45382 bugs filed in
> - only one place, 7134 -- or 15.7% -- were duplicates of bugs that
> were
> - filed in one different place. So helping the reporter find the
> - appropriate product or package to begin with could save time for, on
> - average, at least one out of every seven bugs.
> + only one place, 7134 (15.7%) were duplicates; and of these, 145 were
> + duplicates of bugs that were filed in one different place. So
> helping
> + the reporter find the appropriate product or package to begin
> with could
> + save time for, on average, 3% of bug reports.

Don't you mean 0.3%? This is insignificant, IMHO.

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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote :

You're right, it's probably not worth it.

description: updated
Changed in malone:
status: Confirmed → Rejected
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