On Thursday 06 September 2007 19:49:27 Christian Robottom Reis wrote: > We already synchronize status from the KDE bug tracker, which allows > Launchpad watches on KDE bugs to be updated. Part of the problem Sarah > is pointing out is that there are many Ubuntu-reported bugs that are > actually upstream, and that upstream is offering to triage them for us. There are also bugs that are only reported in Ubuntu and never properly forwarded upstream - it just takes effort to do this, so we should be very happy if upstream developers would like to help and do bug triage directly on Ubuntu bug database. Lot's of upstream projects value the reach Ubuntu has and this is why they are using LP directly (more and more). And I think we should make it easier to do so, not harder. I would also like to point out that many upstream projects may not have proper bug tracking tool (some use mailing lists), even less integration of their bug tracking into LP bug watch feature. Good example of such projects are packages that are created from KDE-Apps.org site: many projects there are available in Ubuntu as package but they do not use KDE infrastructure for bugs or source code. If they start to use LP for Ubuntu bug triage, they might see other benefits of LP infrastructure and may register they project on LP, start using BZR... > I certainly disagree with this being anything but triage -- for > instance, if the bug has been fixed upstream, it should remain open > in Ubuntu until a new package is made available. However, for the first > half of the triage process (i.e. from New to Confirmed) the statuses are > similar. I understand your concern about Fix Released (which should be only set when fixed package is uploaded in Ubuntu), but I do not see problem with other states. > The question for me is what specifically are these triagers find to be > problems? What would they like to do which they currently can't? They need to join Ubuntu QA group and even to do that, somebody need to tell them to do so. Since they have very limited interest (package or some packages), it would make sense to provide an option to configure LP users that are official triagers for the specific package. That way, Ubuntu QA members (or any other authority) could assign official triaggers to specific package. Regards, Luka
This is the launchpad-users mailing list archive — see also the general help for Launchpad.net mailing lists.
(Formatted by MHonArc.)