Comment 1 for bug 913740

Suboptimality #9

When trying to submit https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/913787 (eventually successful),
I first saw the list of potentially related bugs, clicked "No, I need to submit new bug",
then composed the bug and Submitted it.

I was then taken again to related bugs screen to see if mine was duplicate and apparently
my bug was not yet in the system. This is quite bad as I could have lost my valuable
bug report just due to some navigation error or bug in process (majority of online
shopping carts are lost due to too many steps in process and some step having
bug - by adding more steps you compound the chances of some bug manifesting).

I thenk clicked "No, I need to submit new bug report" again and I returned to the
composition screen (luckily the system did not loose my composition - I definitely
feared this would happen).

Evidently it is impossible to submit a bug whose summary line causes a bug to be
considered potentially related. I was forced to change the summary so that
it would not match any of the other bugs. In effect I had to make the summary
less meaningful just to work around the brain damage of the duplicate bug
detector. Thus your bug tracking system requires me to degrade the quality
of my bug reports. Now that's broken.

Also, given that I am a compentent Unix sysadmin and open source author myself,
I wonder if I really need to jump through all these hoops to contribute. Could you
flag me as competent user so all this could be avoided in future?

Cheers,
--Sampo