<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Hello,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I am a PhD student at <span class="" id=":5nr.1" tabindex="-1" style="background:yellow">UFMG</span>, Brazil. As part of my research, I am </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">working with a <span class="" id=":5nr.2" tabindex="-1">recommender</span> for </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">similar bugs.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The idea is to recommend to a developer who has fixed or is working on </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">a bug X that there are </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">similar bugs X1, X2, etc in the tracking system. Currently, I am </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">assuming that two bugs </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">are similar if they are assigned to the same component and share some similarities among their textual descriptions.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">In fact, we implemented a prototype extension of <span class="" id=":5nr.3" tabindex="-1">Bugzilla</span>, with </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">recommendations of similar </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">bugs, called <span class="" id=":5nr.4" tabindex="-1" style="background:yellow">NextBug</span>. We also have some results showing that similar </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">bugs happen in </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">real systems. Finally, we conducted a small survey with Mozilla developers, who </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">also provided an interesting feedback.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Therefore, if possible, I would like to discuss with <span class="" id=":5nr.5" tabindex="-1" style="background:yellow">Bugzilla's</span> </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">developers if they seem </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">such recommendations useful and if they have interest on including a </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">similar feature </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">in the system.</span><br><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">I appreciate any comments on the matter. </font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Thank you in advance for your collaboration.</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">- Henrique Rocha</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Computer Science PhD Student</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Applied Software Engineering Research Group </font><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> (</span><a href="http://aserg.labsoft.dcc.ufmg.br/" target="_blank" style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">http://aserg.labsoft.dcc.ufmg.br/</a><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">)</span></div></div>