Does anyone think it would be unfair to count dups as votes for a bug? I see some bugs with literally a dozen dups. To me that is a sure sign of its importance to people.

I don't want to second-guess or obfusicate the voting system. If someone sees that the bug they submitted was marked as a duplicate, they have the opportunity to go chase down the original bug and vote on it. If the problem is that we want more people to understand and use the voting system, then we need to work on that.

I don't think many people do because it is not obvious that votes are anything more than nothing. That is to say that I don't see any reordering of bug priorities based on votes, am I missing something?

Again, this is an education issue. Bugzilla just collects the voting data and reports it to anyone who asks. If we want engineers to pay attention to the votes and tweak their priorities accordingly, that's a separate problem (and not one that Bugzilla itself is going to solve).

At least when somebody voted for a duplicate bug, shouldn't the votes be automatically transfered when the bug is marked as a duplicate?

This has been covered before in bug #16153. If this gets implemented it will need to not occur right away, say after a month or when the bug is VERIFIED or CLOSED, or both. An alternative is bug #27553.

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Err, no, it wasn't covered in that bug, that's deps not dups. But anyway, this is a dupe, I think I'd prefer to close this one because of the conversation on the other one (although it's close) despite its age. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 36919 ***

Wake up Matthew ... An implementation of this would probably solve bug #36919, but they're not the same ...

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Just a thought. Instead of transferring the votes, we could automatically pick them up from bugs marked as duplicates of this one. That way when a bug is reopened is gets automatically undone. And this doesn't suffer from the problems of transferring votes through dependencies (bug #16153), because a dupe can only be a dupe of one bug. So I think this is quite doable.

I agree with Matt

Moving to new product Bugzilla. Putting this in Changing/Editing Bugs since this is with marking dups.

*** Bug 123159 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** Bug 129669 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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See also bug 65370, create a new "interest" field that combines dup count, number of votes, and number of CCs. Fixing that bug would make this change unnecessary. - Jesse using Asa's computer.

*** Bug 179528 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Broadening the summary to include the scope of several of the bugs that have been duped to this one. The discussion in this bug covers that scope, but the summary didn't, so it was confusing people. I personally think comment 10 is a pretty cool idea. I'm worried about the kind of table joins it would require to pull it off in buglist.cgi, though. Subselects would fix that, but gee, MySQL can't really do that yet. :( Maybe when MySQL 4.2 comes out. (Or we can just do it that way on Postgres or something).

*** Bug 257691 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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