Re: Bug statistics

[Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>This is also far from ideal.  Unless you have a lot of time on your
>hands, going through the bugs and trying to figure out if they are the
>same as yours is a nuisance.  This should be a job of some program
>that runs periodically, or, failing that, of a human (whom we
>obviously lack).

FWIW, when I've experienced this automated dup-finding in the web
interface of other bug trackers, it has not been a nuisance -- on the
contrary it was a great relief, because it helped me know I'm not
wasting the developers' time with a duplicate report.  (The majority of
the time, it did find a dup of what I was about to file.  Sometimes I
was able to go to that existing report and add useful information.)

For me it became one of those "never go back" features, like sexp motion
in Emacs.

>Gathering all the information needed for a good bug report is already
>a non-trivial job (witness how many veteran Emacs contributors fail to
>do that!).  We should not burden the bug submitters with any
>additional costs.

It wasn't a burden at all (for me) -- quite the opposite.