[shalmanese]

I think we're in agreement about the important issues. It just saddens me that the proposed short term fixes all seem to involve additional process and overhead to deal with pathologies brought on by the issue tracker. Whenever I spot a long running bugzilla thread with all of the "Bug X was marked a duplicate of this bug", I imagine just how many manhours have been sacrificed to appease the issue tracker gods because our tools aren't flexible enough to adapt to us so we end up adapting to our tools.

[sandal]

My solution involves cutting that overhead, not adding to it.

Most of the proposed fixes are ones I agree with in spirit, but implemented a little bit differently in practice.