Bug 478714 - The `Possible Duplicates` includes bugs that are not related to my selected software.
Summary: The `Possible Duplicates` includes bugs that are not related to my selected s...
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: bugs.kde.org
Classification: Websites
Component: general (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: unspecified
Platform: Other Other
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: KDE sysadmins
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Reported: 2023-12-19 09:21 UTC by Kia
Modified: 2023-12-21 00:54 UTC (History)
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Description Kia 2023-12-19 09:21:09 UTC
SUMMARY
I've noticed that all of the suggested `Possible Duplicates` under the bug report are related to other software, The possibility a suggestion applying to multiple software is extremely low and filling it with unrelated reports just defeat the whole purpose of finding possible duplicates.
Also, we're filling the OS information on the top, you can remove them from the template.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Choose a software above
2. Type a bug
3. Check the `Possible Duplicates` suggested

OBSERVED RESULT
Irrelevant suggestions

EXPECTED RESULT
Suggestions related to the software specified

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macOS: 
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Comment 1 Nate Graham 2023-12-21 00:52:13 UTC
Indeed, the duplicate detector isn't amazing. Unfortunately this is not KDE code; it's simply a feature of Bugzilla itself. Short of rewriting it ourselves--which is not really realistic--it needs to be improved upstream by the Bugzilla developers.

> Also, we're filling the OS information on the top, you can remove them from the template.
This is a separate thing; in general, please submit a new bugzilla ticket for each bug/issue/request etc. However in this case there is no need; the "Version" field on top is only for the software itself; we also need to know the versions of other related things, like the KDE Frameworks version it was built with, the Qt version, the Kernel version, etc. Those pieces of information can't be added to the default metadata fields on top.