Hug Thursday!

[Dereck]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Till Kamppeter
<till.kamppeter at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dereck wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Till Kamppeter
>> <till.kamppeter at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Dereck wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Fellow Ubuntu Triagers!
>>>>
>>>> Charge your lasers, because it's time for another HugDay!
>>>>
>>>> This week's HugDay target is *drum roll please* cupsys!
>>>>  * 108 New bugs need a hug
>>>>  * 28 Incomplete bugs need a status check
>>>>  * 40 Confirmed bugs need a review
>>>>
>>>> CUPSYS: The Common Unix Printing System is what controls printing
>>>> in Ubuntu, a fairly necessary task of any desktop machine.
>>>
>>> Do you take into account that cupsys was renamed to cups in the Intrepid
>>> release cycle? This means the figures of "cupsys" and "cups" bugs have
>>> to get summed up. For triagers it menas that everything which is still
>>> valid in Intrepid needs to be moved to "cups".
>>>
>>> In addition. triagers should know that the printing subsystem consists
>>> of many packages, not only cups, but also ghostscript, foomatic-*,
>>> hplip, gutenprint, splix, system-config-printer, ... Users do not know
>>> that and assign printing-related bug reports to cups/cupsys or
>>> system-config-printer in most cases. Triagers should move these to the
>>> correct packages.
>>>
>>>   Till
>>>
>>
>>
>> I was in fact unaware! When generating the list of bugs, I innocently used
>> the package cupsys. Would the appropriate solution be to move all bugs
>> from cupsys to cups?  Perhaps we could just run a script to do this for
>> us,
>> and regenerate the hugday list on the package cups? Or should he have
>> triagers just move them over as relevant, such as all intrepid and beyond
>> bugs be moved to 8.10?
>
> The best would be to add support for package renaming to Launchpad: Package
> pages should show the full history, also of the releases under old names.
> Going to the URL of the old name should automatically forward the user to
> the new name. Same for bug reporting. New bugs reported for a renamed
> package should be automatically posted under the new package name and
> existing bugs be moved.
>
> I would say you move all bugs to cups by a script and then regenerate the
> list.
>
>   Till
>
>

Brian,

WRT: moving all bugs from cupsys to cups in launchpad via a script .

Would it be possible to do this today before Hugday? What say you?

~Dereck