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[Paul Larson <paul.larson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 14:32 -0800, Brian Murray wrote:
> At UDS Lucid one thing we were discussing was the small quantity of bug
> patterns being written and how it is hard to discover for which bugs to
> write a pattern.  It was suggested that the apport retracer subscribe
> us, the Ubuntu Bug Control team, to bug reports with more than 10
> duplicates as a way of notifying us that a bug could use a pattern.
> After the pattern was written the team would be unsubscribed from the
> bug report.  I like this idea a lot but would like to hear from other
> team members too.
I think it would be useful if after the subscription, it could add a tag
to make searching for these type of bugs convenient.  Something like
'pattern-needed' perhaps.  Then we could probably do with a second tag
to say that either a pattern has been created, or it has been looked at
and determined that no pattern is needed.  That way if someone does
either of those things and unsubscribes the bug, it won't just get
resubscribed if there's another dup to it later.

Thanks,
Paul Larson