Bugs for daily build packages

[Deryck Hodge]

On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 2:13 AM, Jonathan Lange <jml at canonical.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 4:37 AM, James Westby <jw+debian at jameswestby.net> wrote:
>> On Sun Dec 06 22:03:06 +0000 2009 Jonathan Lange wrote:
>> Would it be too much to have apport always file against LP, and
>> then allow an LP project to be configured to auto-push those bugs
>> to an external tracker with a plugin? This gives us less coverage,
>> but a better experience in terms of getting the information from
>> the user and to the desired people.
>
> That, I don't know.

Why is auto-pushing preferable in the case of daily builds?

In discussions I had around bug forwarding to external trackers
(admittedly not in the context of daily builds), no one seemed to
suggest auto-forwarding of bugs.  The thinking was that it's too easy
to spam an upstream.

Now maybe I talked to the wrong people initially. :)  Or maybe I'm not
understanding what James is wanting here.

>
> In an ideal world, the Launchpad code base would have an abstract API
> for a bug tracker with an implementation for each kind of tracker that
> we support, and one of those methods would be 'reportBug'. Well, maybe
> that's not the _ideal_ ideal world, but it's my ideal world. I have no
> idea how close we are to that.

We have no code written for this.  The plugins would allows to forward
bugs -- i.e. we could create a `reportBug` method -- but we haven't
done any of this work yet.

Cheers,
deryck

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