brainstorming for UDS-N - Application Developers

[Mackenzie Morgan]

On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Evan Dandrea <ev at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> These bug and crash reports should be presented in Ubuntu through a common
> desktop interface, but ultimately hit a web API on the backend.  Let developers
> choose what bug tracker and project management system they want to use, be it
> Launchpad or something else.  The important thing is that we send bugs straight
> to them rather than expect users or an overburdened QA team to ensure that bugs
> filed in Ubuntu get back to the developers.  No longer will bugs fall into the
> void.  No longer will there be a separation between a packaging bug and a bug in
> the application.  A bug in the software you use is a bug in the software you
> use; it doesn't matter where it ultimately manifests.

Upstreams tend to get unhappy when they get bug reports about things
that are our fault though.

Like that time Amarok was breaking because we had a broken non-KDE
library on which it depended, and KDE got all the bug reports.

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Mackenzie Morgan
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