Unmentioned bug tag in the wiki

[Brian Murray]

On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 07:49:46PM -0400, Daniel Letzeisen wrote:
> On 09/29/2013 06:26 PM, Alberto Salvia Novella wrote:
> >Apport retracing service <https://launchpad.net/%7Eapport> added
> >the 'bugpattern-needed' tag to bug #1098266
> ><https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tumbler/+bug/1098266>,
> >but this tag is not mentioned in the wiki
> ><https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Tags>.
> 
> From what I gather, it's mostly for devs to limit bugmail about an
> issue which affects a lot of people when they're already aware of it
> and/or working on it.
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/+bug/487900
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Apport/DeveloperHowTo#Bug_patterns

Bug patterns are written to prevent the reporting of bug reports to
Launchpad, thereby preventing needless triaging, and retracing work.  Bug
patterns can be written by anyone, but only members of the Ubuntu Bug
Control team can commit to the bzr branch for them.

I covered how to write bug patterns in an Ubuntu Developer Week class a
bit ago.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/devweek1107/WorkingWithApportBugs

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Brian Murray
Ubuntu Bug Master