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ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0001237	mantisbt	bugtracker	public	2001-11-28 12:57	2004-07-07 18:39

Reporter	prescience	Assigned To	grangeway
Priority	normal	Severity	feature	Reproducibility	N/A
Status	closed	Resolution	duplicate

Summary	0001237: Relationship graphs
Description	It would be useufl to be able to create certain relationships between bugs. Some examples are "duplicate of", "depends on", "needed for", "similar to", "part of". This would supplant the duplicate bug ID and be more felxible overall. Dependency graphs can also be created as well as connecting bugs to show that they are related to other parts of a bigger problem. Even more nicely, a simple table would be enough to store this information: source_bug_id, destination_bug_id, relationship_type. These would all be integers to allowfor proper localization. Word/bugID ordering may be an issue with certain languages.
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blizzy 2002-04-25 16:15 reporter ~0002389	This adds quite too much unneeded complexity as to entering bugs. See my comment to 0001144.

jfitzell 2002-08-21 19:18 reporter ~0003148	hmm.. I actually like the way you propose this There certainly is some risk of making things too complicated but it seems a lot more flexible than the "duplicate" feature now and the complexity can be hidden in the basic interface. I don't think it will scare off people reporting bugs anyway because it would never be on the report bug page. Do you have any more recent thoughts on this stuff Ken?

vboctor 2004-03-01 08:28 manager ~0005148	Word/bugID ordering may be an issue with certain languages. This is not a problem anymore since sprintf supports re-ordering of parameters.

goemon1 2004-04-19 07:39 reporter ~0005389	'depends on' is extremely important, it should not be possible to close/resolve a bug which depends on another being resolved first. i think this would be an excellent feature for mantis. i know you can put stuff like that in the bugnotes/description/etc, but it doesnt prevent some (!&@(!& from clicking 'close' or 'resolve' without reading it first, especially when the bugnotes/description/etc. get really long.

goemon1 2004-06-26 18:57 reporter ~0005803	this should be marked a dupe of 0003969

grangeway 2004-06-27 07:42 reporter ~0005804	marking as duplicate of 0003969

duplicate of	0003969	closed	masc	Issue Relationships Support
has duplicate	0003610	closed	vboctor	bug dependency tracking