Needs Packaging bug reports

[Brian Murray]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 08:15:17AM -0500, Fabian Rodriguez wrote:
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> Brian Murray wrote:
> > As a part of the managing needs-packaging bug reports specification[1]
> > it was decided that all needs-packaging bug reports should have an
> > importance of wishlist.  Subsequently, I've written a script using the
> > Launchpad API that will set the importance of almost all needs-packaging
> > bugs to wishlist.
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> I see some needs-packaging bug reports will not be given enough
> importance if this change goes through. For example:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/120576
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> As a bug reviewer I'd probable go back and make this kind of bug
> Importance: Medium.
> 
> About the script, it'd be nice if it also checks for consistency and
> adds the needs-packaging tag to bugs that have [needs-packaging] in
> their subject and vice versa.

Ensuring the subject of bugs that are tagged 'needs-packaging' actually
starts off with [needs-packaging] should be easy and can be done in the
same script.

The reverse, finding all the bugs with [needs-packaging] in the summary,
and ensuring they are tagged 'needs-packaging' is a bit more time
consuming.  As I see it there are two possible entry points to find
these bugs:

1) using a Launchpad search for 'needs-packaging' ~4389 results
2) all bugs without a package ~3588

Both of these sets are significantly larger than the ~1400 bug reports
tagged needs-packaging.  Unless, there is some other smaller set to
start off from I'm not certain the results would be worth it.

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Brian Murray                                                 @ubuntu.com
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