Proposal for change in bug management practice

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

Matthew East wrote on 02/03/09 00:37:
>...
> One problem we've always had is that bugs are reported both on the
> ubuntu-doc Launchpad project, as well as on the {k/x/ed/}ubuntu-docs
> packages on the Ubuntu project.
> 
> The main disadvantage of this is that bugs are found in two different
> places rather than one and we have to search in both places for bugs,
> and point new contributors to two sets of bug lists.

This is a problem with Launchpad, "Handle a distribution being its own
upstream for a package" <http://launchpad.net/bugs/76416>.

> I think the solution to this is to move to holding all of our bugs in
> the various packages in the Ubuntu project, and set the ubuntu-doc
> project not to track bugs. This was suggested recently by one of the
> Launchpad bug developers here:
> 
> https://answers.launchpad.net/launchpad/+question/60937
>...

This is similar to the the approach taken by the developers of Ubiquity,
Update Manager, and Notify OSD: they concentrate bug tracking on the
package, though they don't go so far as stopping bugs from being
reported against the project.

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Matthew Paul Thomas
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