Re: Image generator to track bugs in forums or blogs

[Marco Rodrigues <gothicx@xxxxxxx>]

I think Launchpad support for RSS 2.0 will replace this easily :-) Anyone knows
when LP will have RSS ?

Martin Albisetti wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I've been wanting to see the Ubuntuforums and Launchpad a bit more
> integrated for some [1] time [2] now [3], and since I haven't been
> successful at it, I went a different direction.
> 
> I would also like to ask everyone reading this, please don't make it
> too public yet (don't digg it, for example), as it's still in beta
> stage, and I wouldn't want any servers to go down just yet :D
> 
> That said, I'd like to present the latest addition to ubuntustats.com:
> 
> http://bugs.ubuntustats.com/
> 
> An image generator with bug information, which auto-updates to reflect
> the latest status of a bug in Launchpad.
> This is especially useful when referring to a specific bug in a forum
> or blog post, so when someone lands there a few months later, they can
> know that the referred bug has been fixed.
> 
> We do have a few known bugs:
> 
> - It currently only updates Ubuntu bugs. It does generate images for
> all Launchpad bugs, but just updates Ubuntu ones. This will be fixed
> in the future, but is not our main goal at the moment.
> - Some bugs do not generate properly, #111257 for example. This will
> be fixed soon.
> - It's a bit slow. We have limited resources and are not using the
> most ideal ways of obtaining information. We hope to resolve this soon
> too.
> 
> At this stage I would love some feedback while we work on the
> performance issues we might have when releasing into the mainstream.
> 
> This, again, has been made possible also thanks to Felipe Lerena who
> does most of the heavy lifting code-wise, so a big thanks to him.
> 
> 
> Martin
> 
> 
> 
> 
> [1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/launchpad-users/2007-March/001184.html
> [2] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/launchpad-users/2007-March/001219.html
> [3] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=384627
> 

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Marco Rodrigues

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