[Desktop13.04-Topic] Integrate a Paper Cuts toolbelt into ubuntu-dev-tools

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

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Colin Watson wrote on 25/10/12 10:22:
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> On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 12:17:02PM -0400, Andrew Starr-Bochicchio
>> 
>> On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 8:26 AM, Chris Wilson
>> <notgary at ubuntu.com>
>>> 
>>> On 24 October 2012 13:23, Chris Wilson <notgary at ubuntu.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> In order for the Hundred Paper Cuts project to stay healthy,
>>>> it needs a constant flow of new bugs, several hundred each
>>>> cycle, for people to work on. Making it easier to report
>>>> paper cuts will help keep the reports flowing, and a desktop
>>>> utility bundled with ubuntu-dev-tools could help with this.
>>>> 
>>>> A simple graphical tool that provides an interface for
>>>> reporting new paper cuts, with fields customized for paper
>>>> cut bug reports. ubuntu-bug send a lot of information that is
>>>> not necessary for these kinds of problems.
>>>> 
>>>> An application picker (I think GTK3 has a pretty good one)
>>>> that will list all the applications installed on the system
>>>> that are covered by the paper cuts project. When the user
>>>> chooses one, relevant data about the version of the app,
>>>> installed plugins, etc, will be added to the report.
> 
> Presumably the user already has the application in question open,
> so it would be simpler to allow them to point to an open window and
> have the reporting program work out the package from that.
> 
> ...

This is very similar to the "Contributor Console" I designed in June.
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ContributorConsole>

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