[copied from developers@bugzilla.org] I was testing new functionality coming with PHP 5.0 and found a bug. I checked bugs.php.net for similar problems but (sic!) didn't find any. (The reason was because i looked for all bugs related to "print_r" problem no matter of version etc. I recived 309 bugs and checked only 60 first.) So i decided to fill a bug. After filling it, i clicked "submit bug", but instead of sending it, bugs.php.net displayed a list of possible matching problems with description,status and question if i'm sure it's not any of following. If not, i can click "submit" once more, to really submit it into database. Of course the bug was there and I did not send one more dupe. I think that similar system in bugzilla would be very, very, very effective and would meaningly reduce number of dupes.

This may or may not be a dupe of bug 145588. The answer depends on how bugs.php.net works, and whether it works better than the solution being developed in bug 145588.

I think that it's not a dupe. As states in bug 145588 Comment #0 target is to use FullText in Query page. My point is to add one more page between 'add bug' form, and submiting. This one would display possible ready bugs and asking "Isn't it one of this?". It would greatly reduce number of dupes (i hope). Even if somebody wont check for dupes, Bugzilla will show possible similar bugs and simply "force" user to think if it's not a dupe.