Hello, When a bug is closed as a duplicate of another bug, the duplicate bug could be showing a different view/effect of the same defect. Thus, their severity could be different. For example, it was not clear that bug 1738056 <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1738056> affected accessibility, thus, it was triaged as S4; whereas, the accessibility problem was clear in its duplicate (bug 1735712 <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1735712>), which was triaged as S2. However, closing the bug as a duplicate concealed important information. To avoid underestimating the severity in such cases, we implemented a new feature for autonag to highlight cases where duplicate bugs have higher severity than original bugs.
To avoid unnecessary noise, we applied some measures (we are welcoming any suggestion for additional measures): - Ignore cases where severity was downgraded after the duplicate bugs were linked. - Manually cleaned up duplicate bugs where severity was set by an external reporter. - Manually cleaned up cases where the bot had already asked to increase the severity for other reasons. We plan to enable the feature on Monday, October 31st, 2022. You could peek at examples of affected bugs by checking the dry-run results <https://github.com/mozilla/relman-auto-nag/pull/1672#issuecomment-1290970807> . Your feedback is genuinely appreciated. Thank you, Suhaib, on behalf of the CI and Quality Tools team. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "[email protected]" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/d/msgid/dev-platform/CAOxYMVPhFokfG9P-Sy9_M%3D4OQfYPZ0jp%3D2p4LDQErYyfTk-ygw%40mail.gmail.com.
