Recommended Hardy bugs

[Henrik Nilsen Omma]

Hello,

One of the QA team goals for Hardy is to present a list of key bugs that 
the distro team should focus on for the release. This should include 
long-standing bugs and 'popular' bugs with many subscribers or many dupes.

I'd like for us to present a list to the development community before 
the holiday break. That gives the other teams a chance to digest the 
information before the distro sprint in January. At that point we should 
re-evaluate the list with them and settle on which will be the firm 
targets for Hardy.

We should aim to cover the whole range of packages in the distro (though 
chiefly in main). We are not primarily going for bugs that are already 
marked as high priority and assigned to individual devs, but rather bugs 
that are not as high on the radar as they should be. I imagine a list of 
100-200 bugs makes sense.

This should not have to involve looking at thousands of individual bugs 
to evaluate them for inclusion. We should start with some existing lists 
like:

http://people.ubuntu.com/~brian/reports/gt2dups/
http://people.ubuntu.com/~brian/reports/gt5comments/
http://people.ubuntu.com/~brian/reports/gt5subscribers/

or sensible LP/bh searches and sort further from that to identify 
targets. The point here is not for this to take up countless triaging 
hours, but to capture some of the overview knowledge we as a team have 
about the general volume of bugs. Compiling this list will be an art, 
not a science - there is no perfect list or clear definition of which 
exact bugs should be on it - just use you judgement.

We can discuss further how to compile and track this list at this weeks 
meeting.


Henrik