[RFC] Ability to link launchpad bugs to the hardware database

[Tim Gardner]

Martin Albisetti wrote:
> Tim Gardner wrote:
>> While I understand (and appreciate) the work Tom, Abel and Martin have
>> been doing on the hardware database, I have no idea what you mean when
>> you say "plug into this work". Are there new LP options for attaching HW
>> descriptions to bug reports? Leann certainly needs to be aware of this
>> work since she is the kernel team LP wizard.
> 
> I think he means "talk to us to make sure your use cases are addressed".
> Quick overview of what we want to do with this feature is:
> - Introduce a flag for bugs which says they are "hardware bugs"
> - For the bugs with that flag, when a user clicks "me too", we ask them
> if their HW profile is related to it
> - For all the collected HW profiles, we will show what the common
> devices among them are
> 
> That's our rough first draft of the feature.
> How does that sound?
> 

How much specificity will you ask of the user when they click "me too" ?
Audio is a good example where folks think "my sound doesn't work and I
have the same Intel HDA, so I must be a 'me too'".

rtg
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Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com