mozilla / mozilla/bugbot

Handle cases where the bot proposes a severity increase and the developers ignore

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Description

We were discussing about this and how to best handle cases where the bot proposes an increase, the developers ignore it or set it to a low severity (like S3), and then later we get more duplicates.

@calixteman said:

A possibility is to add the number of dup in the comment made by the bot, and if at some point prev_dup_num +whatever >= current_num then nag again or nag when num of bugs is a multiple of 3 or whatever
we can have different strategies based on the number of dups
3 => reset, 6 => reset + tracking request, ... something like that

Originally posted by @marco-c in https://github.com/mozilla/relman-auto-nag/issues/1184#issuecomment-1019921816

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Start by reading the discussion referenced from relman-auto-nag issue #1184 and tracing the bot's existing severity-increase and duplicate-handling behavior. Before implementation, agree on the strategy for repeated duplicates and ignored or downgraded proposals; done means that agreed strategy is implemented and its behavior is covered by appropriate tests.

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python
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