ethan526 Posted June 20, 2009 Share Posted June 20, 2009 When responding to a issue as duplicate, link to the original issue, so we can see when and how it was or wasnt resolved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfie Posted June 20, 2009 Share Posted June 20, 2009 That'd require a lot of work for the staff, having to hunt through to find the original issue. How about this idea instead? http://forums.invisionpower.com/topic/285816-feature-suggestions/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfarber Posted June 22, 2009 Share Posted June 22, 2009 That would probably about double the amount of time we take marking bug reports, and unfortunately that's not really in our best interests. When there's a visible bug, there are often 30 or more bug reports on the same issue (for instance, the parse error in the bulk mailer in RC2). I'd rather be fixing bugs, than showing members who didn't do a proper search why their bug was marked as a duplicate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ethan526 Posted July 4, 2009 Author Share Posted July 4, 2009 I'll ask the stupid question, how do you know a bug is duplicate if you aren't checking first? Is it possible similar bugs are being marked duplicate when different problems do in fact exist? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teraßyte Posted July 4, 2009 Share Posted July 4, 2009 Or course the staff reads the whole bug report before marking it as duplicate :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Posted July 4, 2009 Share Posted July 4, 2009 The developers can normally remember which issues they've fixed :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfie Posted July 4, 2009 Share Posted July 4, 2009 [quote name='Μark' date='04 July 2009 - 08:44 AM' timestamp='1246711447' post='1820126'] The developers can normally remember which issues they've fixed :) Heck, many customers remember a lot of the fixed issues. For example, a particular Bulk Mail bug which was due to the same typo in two places of the bulk mail file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfarber Posted July 6, 2009 Share Posted July 6, 2009 [quote name='ethan526' date='04 July 2009 - 06:32 AM' timestamp='1246703541' post='1820095'] I'll ask the stupid question, how do you know a bug is duplicate if you aren't checking first? Is it possible similar bugs are being marked duplicate when different problems do in fact exist? Of course that could happen if the developer doesn't pay attention, but generally we're able to pick up on those sorts of things. We would typically only mark a bug report as a duplicate if we're sure it's a duplicate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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