stef/nnmon — Issue #39: Merging cases
Author: zorun
Created: 2011-11-18 17:03:09+00:00
State: open

This is a proposal on the way of merging similar cases.

The scenario is:

* one case considered the "original"
* a number of other cases considered "duplicates"

Merging would be something like, for each "duplicate":

* add the confirmations of the "duplicate" to the "original" count;
* transform the report of the "duplicate" into a **comment** of the "original";
* move the comments on the "duplicate" to the "original" (if possible, keep a consistent order)

It's simple, but there are some issues:

* *similar cases with different contracts:* we could concatenate the two contracts (might need some human intervention)
* *ordering of comments:* to keep things consistent, one would have to keep the "duplicate" report (which is turned into a comment on the "original" case) together with its own comments. That means we can't sort comments by date anymore.
* *other informations on the "duplicate" report that get lost when turning it into a comment:* I don't think it matters much, since it's a duplicate anyway...

What do you think? Does that make sense, would it be easy to implement?