Hi,
The subject pretty much explains it.
I have a couple theories why there's so many duplicates: - SourceForge.net is kind of hard to use, especially searching - No login required makes it "too easy" for people to quickly post bug reports without thinking too much as soon as they experience a bug
Anyway, I just wanted to see if anybody had any ideas for how we could minimize duplicate bug reports since it's a quite a pain to keep up with the all the report as it is, especially with things like GTK+ bugs where a distro upgrades their GTK+ and we get a pile of duplicate bugs about the same non-Geany bugs.
Two recent examples come to mind: - GTK+ file chooser dialog bug causes Geany to crash - DBus menu bug causes console spam and non-functioning menus
Both of these had more than 3 or 4 duplicate bugs reported already, even when some of the other duplicate reports were already on the first screen you see before you post a bug. Both have been fixed in Git, but bug reporters won't know this unless they first check for duplicates and see that we've fixed it.
Ideas would be appreciated.
Cheers, Matthew Brush