Comment 1 for bug 801

For the purposes of simplicity of the initial implementation, not much thought has been given to how we'll deal with task merging/statuses/etc.

But, I feel that you certainly raise an important point about this being currently non-obvious to interpret as a user. I plan to focus on a more complete dups implementation (talking to users, reaching some decisions on how to merge tasks, possibly even adding another kind of task status and/or "emergent bug property" for this kind of thing, etc.) after 1.0 is rolled out.

If you have some suggestions at the moment for how you would expect task merging/status changing to take place when a bug is marked dup, please feel free to document them here. Otherwise we'll glean more insight into this problem with some user discussion/usability testing in the weeks following the 1.0 release.