Bugs without a package

[Pedro Villavicencio Garrido]

Hello,

On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 16:17 +0000, Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote:
> 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.
> 

I like the idea of the email. The place holder of the package may
contain some directions to the advanced form[1]? because otherwise i
guess you don't have a way to fill a bug with a tag

1- https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/+filebug-advanced

Regards,

pedro.