Interactive Bug Title submit
One thing about submitting bugs. It should have a better and more interactive check when you fill a title. Now we see tons of bugs which are the same. Even though Ton talked about it here about commercial software, Blender still has this and i believe developers are wasting a lot of time merging bugs. If there could be a more automated manner like say GitHub has when you enter a title. Then a list shows with open bugs containing those keywords. This would mean way less repetitive bugs submits.
Below is a screenshot of the method on GitHub. As soon as you type this list will show. I think developers will benefit from such a system and will save HUGE amount of time.
Currently there is not method for this. Perhaps a user should be directed to a overview first or a search page. But that could mean people would submit less bugs. I find the current method not really handy for dev guys. I myself first go searching for simular bugs, but this is weird a lot more clicking of course.
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I agree, GitHub's prompts work OK. An additional simple tree-structured submission decision-path would allow coarse triage even before the title is chosen as per GitHub: steering the submission into a suitable topic 'bucket' which the devs can assess more easily than today's choice between a wall of unsorted bug reports and an afternoon of playing with search terms...