Bugs Reported Against a PPA

[Charlie Kravetz]

On Fri, 06 Mar 2009 19:43:00 +0100
Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> hggdh wrote:
> > On Fri, 6 Mar 2009 08:55:41 -0800
> > Jordan Mantha <laserjock at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > 
> >>> My opinion:
> >>>
> >>> Bugs against a PPA should not be invalid bugs. They should be
> >>> clearly identified as part of bug triage as being against a PPA,
> >>> and the PPA owner should have a chance to decide what to do with
> >>> the bug. This could be easily accomplished by adding a PPA tag to
> >>> the bugs, and/or add [PPA] to the summary.  
> >> I think rather the bugs should *not* be filed in Ubuntu's bug
> >> tracker but sent to the PPA owner. 
> > 
> > I disagree. The easiest way to forward a bug to the PPA owner is by
> > filling it as a bug...
> 
> But not in Ubuntu. It's ok if a developer uses a PPA before uploading
> something to the archive and asks to report bugs in the bug tracker,
> but not as a general rule.
> 
> The solution is not to allow people to submit bugs from outside the
> archive in the bug tracker, but to ask the Launchpad devs to provide
> a way to report bugs against a PPA.
> 
> Cheers,
> Emilio
> 

While we are asking, what do you do with the bugs found? I find it
hard to believe invalidating the bugs against a PPA is doing anyone any
good. It may be fast, but we need a way to track the bugs until they
can be reported against a PPA.

I simply propose that the bugs are not simply marked invalid in the
meantime. I am all for the idea of other solutions. But I also think we
need an interim solution while working toward the permanent fix. 

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