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Contributor XrayA4T on launchpad.net

Better searching for existing bugs to prevent so many duplicate bug logs  
Written by XrayA4T the 30 Mar 09 at 06:28. New
I recently logged a bug which turned out to be a duplicate of an existing bug. I did search through the logs but did not find the match. I searched for:
notification popup brightness
which returns nothing. notification pop up brightness returns one result that is unrelated.
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Solution #1: Include partial search matches sorted by relavancy
Written by XrayA4T the 30 Mar 09 at 06:28.
When searching find results that contain one or more of the search words and those that contain more matches appear first. Also linking words to existing packages could help get people to the right bug, e.g. notify-osd should be linked to notification and pop-up and popup and osd etc to improve matching.
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Solution #2: Fetch Launchpad data in bug reporter
Written by maccam94 the 30 Mar 09 at 07:58.
After the information is gathered and the user opts to submit it to launchpad, show a results page with bugs that closely match what just happened. Then give the user the options "No, submit anyway" and "Yes this matches my issue." Then, if it's a new bug, open the launchpad website. If the user chose a match, return the status of the bug or display possible solutions.

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