Find the right... package?

[Micah Gersten]

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On 05/26/2010 10:44 AM, Brian Murray wrote:
> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 08:34:18PM -0400, David Tombs wrote:
>> On 05/20/2010 04:21 PM, C de-Avillez wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 00:15 +0200, Philip Muskovac wrote:
>>>> As most of us know we have a wiki page about that.
>>>>
>>>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage
>>>>
>>>> What I'm wondering about is:
>>>> Is anyone actually taking care of that page regularily? The fact that I
>>>> recently added notify-osd and plymouth to the page seems to say no.
>>>> Considering that we reference that page at a lot of places (and not only
>>>> on team internal pages) we should get more people to add information to it.
>>>> How about having a wiki day/week about a week before Feature/Beta Freeze
>>>> to update it for the new release?
>>>
>>> This sounds like a good idea. Care to jump-start the process? ;-)
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Here a few things that I find are missing and I'm not sure what the best
>>>> way to add them is / I don't know enough about them to add them:
>>>>
>>>> - general system bootup / grub2 upstart? We only have references for
>>>> splash, kernel, xorg and live disk. I'm not sure how much detail would
>>>> be right here.
>>>> - does it make sense to add something encryption related?
>>>> - Mention the indicators?
>>>> - drivers? (Or should jockey be a bit more verbose?)
>>>>
>>>> Also I only found the storage symptom being mentioned and I'm sure
>>>> others can add more to the list.
>>>
>>> Theoretically, we should be continuously correcting/adding/adjusting
>>> this page, and all others related to it. 
>>>
>>> @All: please feel free to collaborate. If in doubt, there is always this
>>> mailing list, or the #ubuntu-bugs IRC channel.
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I try to update it when I encounter a wrong-package bug that could have
>> been prevented with information on the page. I do think updating it
>> based on each new release is a good idea, though, and I wrote a reminder
>> to myself to do that for 10.10.
> 
> This sounds like something worth recording on a TODO list for the Bug
> Squad.  I think there should be some on going tasks like this one and one
> time tasks like "package xyz was removed from the archive and all its
> bug tasks should be reviewed for SRU-able bugs and the rest set to Won't
> Fix".
>  
> --
> Brian Murray
> Ubuntu Bug Master
> 

I suggest there be a mail to the devel list before doing this.  A
package might be coming back in the next release, but was unusable in
the current release, or maybe it was unmaintainable for 3 yrs, but 1.5
is fine.
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