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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