needs-packaging tag and Candidates

[Richard Bailey]

This seems like a great exercise. It would be good if the Candidates page
could be updated with links to the LP bugs created to reduce double work.

- Richard

On 3/19/07, Jordan Mantha <mantha at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> MOTUs and MOTU Hopefuls!
>
> For a long time we've wanted to move away from using the wiki [0]
> for new package requests. This is for many reasons, wiki pages like
> this can get rather large (we have 450+ requests right now), doesn't
> work well with our normal workflow (bugs on Launchpad were we can
> comment, prioritize, close, etc.), and get easily overlooked by both
> users and developers.
>
> After talking with Launchpad developers it was determined that they
> best approach would be to simply file bugs against Ubuntu and tag
> them with needs-packaging . My only concern with this approach was
> that users had to know the tag before hand and properly add it. I
> thought we would want to have 1 URL that would take them to the bug
> filing page in LP *and* have the tag already there. The code for this
> [1] has already been included in the Beta Launchpad. For people with
> Launchpad Beta access you can test this out by going to [2] or [3].
>
> So, do we want to start migrating off of Candidates? I think it'd be
> an interesting project for Hopefuls and other people wanting to get
> involved with MOTU to work on. Just go through the list and check to
> make sure that the app is even distributable and isn't already in
> Debian/Ubuntu, then move the contents to a bug report and tag with
> needs-packaging .
>
> -Jordan
>
> [0] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/Packages/Candidates
> [1] https://launchpad.net/malone/+bug/79671
> [2] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug?field.tags=needs-packaging
> [3] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug-advanced?field.tags=needs-
> packaging
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