"Report a Bug" menu item and its potential effects

[Martin Pitt]

Hello Matthew,

thank you for this warning.

Matthew Paul Thomas [2007-03-20 15:44 +1200]:
> (Martin Pitt suggested I raise this issue on ubuntu-devel at .)
> 
> Having recently started using Feisty, I noticed the "Report a Bug" item 
> in the Help menu for most applications. In bug 93350, Martin Pitt said 
> that this menu item will be present not only during Feisty development, 
> but also in the final 7.04 release. <https://launchpad.net/bugs/93350>

It was specified like this, so if we want to deviate from this, we
should discuss it amongst the developers and find a consensus.

> Is it too late to reconsider the inclusion of the menu item in
> Ubuntu 7.04?

It is not too late IMHO. Disabling the menu items and/or crash
interception is very unintrusive.

My feeling is that the desktop team should have the final say about
this; after all, they get the largest chunk of bug reports.

I agree with you that we should disable the 'file a general Ubuntu
bug' feature in the System menu. I'm not so sure about the
per-application menus; they already land on the correct package, so do
not need an extra triaging step.

A third independent option is to disable apport shortly before the
final release, since we won't likely fix crashers in stable releases
anyway. Also, the number of already existing crash bugs will probably
keep us busy for a while anyway.

Desktop team, what do you think?

Thanks,

Martin

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