An invalidated bug. Should it have really been invalidated?

[Brian Murray]

On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 06:13:09AM +0100, Phil Wyett wrote:
> On Sat, 2013-08-10 at 14:23 -0400, Chris Johnston wrote:
> > I'm not going to comment on keeping the bug opened or closed, however
> > I will point out:
> 
> > "Many Linux package, hardware, and other non-user space bugs are
> > hardware dependent on both the hardware itself, and what other
> > hardware the problematic hardware is connected to. The rule of thumb
> > is one report, per person, per hardware combination, per bug. For more
> > on this please see here, and further below in this article. As well,
> > please do not post comments to another person's report, claiming you
> > have the same problem, because you have the same hardware, or same
> > computer model. Instead, please file a separate report, and make
> > comments there. This is because no one can verify if you would have
> > the same problem or not, because your hardware can not be analyzed. "
> 
> > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs#Bug_reporting_etiquette
> > 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have read the whole document now after not reading it for a few years.
> It seems many changes and caveats have been introduced and now we have
> many flaws in the whole bug reporting process. What should be a simple
> process for new/inexperienced users (not me as a dev), has actually
> turned into a spiders web of iffy software and processes to perform the
> overall task with the addition of many 'do nots' introduced by
> contributors.
> 
> Is there anyway the bug squad can hold a review in conjunction with the
> quality people and look at the whole process once more? As one example
> to why. If the whole notion of one bug per person per hardware combo and
> no posting to others reports is the way to go. We should really be using
> the duplication method on launchpad and the " This bug affects 'x'
> people. Does this bug affect you? Edit" with this affecting bug heat is
> essentially redundant.

Could you elaborate on what you mean by the last two sentences here?

Keep in mind there is a distinction between packages which are generally
hardware specific (the kernel, X packages) and those that are generally
not like update-manager and Ubuntu Software Center.

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Brian Murray
Ubuntu Bug Master