Bugs without a package
Henrik Nilsen Omma
henrik at ubuntu.com
Fri Feb 1 16:17:43 UTC 2008
Hi,
A surprising number of bugs are still being filed without a package. I'd
like to look at automated ways of dealing with this. It is a problem not
just because it represents one more triaging step todo but because
before a bug gets a package it escapes the attention of package
maintainers and package teams like mozilla and desktop, leaving it for
the triage teams alone to deal with.
I suggest we ask LP to send out an email to someone who reports a bug
against the distro to please set a package and include these links for
guidance:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs
The bug should also be set directly to Incomplete when this mail is sent
out.
This will only work if we also have some category for bugs that really
are filed correctly against the distro itself. We could do this with a
tag, but I'd really like to see a place-holder package for it. That way
if a bug has not package in can only ever be wrong.
Thoughts?
Henrik
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