Req #77356 [Opn]: ITS: Prevent marking tickets as duplicates without specifying original report

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=77356&edit=1 ID: 77356 Updated by: cmb@php.net Reported by: chealer at gmail dot com Summary: ITS: Prevent marking tickets as duplicates without specifying original report Status: Open Type: Feature/Change Request Package: Website problem PHP Version: Irrelevant Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Just to explain how that currently works: if a user refers to some other ticket using “bug hash number”, the other ticket automatically gets an entry “Related To: Bug hash number”. These entries can be filtered via the related reports “button”. See, for instance, <https://bugs.php.net/77347>, which has been closed as duplicate of <https://bugs.php.net/77278>. Only the latter has a filterable related reports entry. So, basically no duplicate is presently supposed to show any related reports. Also, there is a problem regarding comments which contain inadvertant referrals to other tickets. See, for instance, <https://bugs.php.net/2307> which claims to be related to <https://bugs.php.net/77349> which it is certainly not. > […] and would deserve a change in the system so developers > cannot mark a ticket as duplicate when failing to specify a > related ticket tracking the same issue. Hmm, that would require advanced AI, wouldn't it? Anyhow, I suggest to move the discussion regarding possible improvements of referrals and duplicates to the php-webmaster@ mailing list, since a bug tracker is unsuitable for brainstorming, which is certainly necessary in this case. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2018-12-27 04:53:28] chealer at gmail dot com Description: ------------ I noticed a few tickets marked as duplicates without any indication of which tickets they would duplicate. For instance, the following 2 tickets have their Status field set to Duplicate, but the Related reports tab is empty: https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=60024 https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=62132 As this is the result of changes by 2 developers, it looks like this is not exceptional, and would deserve a change in the system so developers cannot mark a ticket as duplicate when failing to specify a related ticket tracking the same issue. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=77356&edit=1