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[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Robert Schroll wrote on 18/12/14 19:03:
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> ...
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> On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Dave Morley
> <davmor2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>> That wouldn't work, most commercial vendors won't know anything 
>> about LP won't care about LP and certainly won't use it.
> 
> From what I can see in the Android store, for example, getting
> lots of good reviews is paramount.  Why wouldn't vendors take
> advantage of a system that allows them to shunt poor reviews (i.e.
> bug reports) into a different silo where most people won't see
> them?

That seems to be conflating two meanings of "good".

For developers, getting lots of *high ratings* is important.

For users, getting lots of *informative reviews* is important.

A high rating may be uninformative. A bug report may or may not be
informative for users in general, depending on how obscure it is.

> Few apps are developed by IBM.  Most seem to be due to individuals
> or small teams.  Such people will be nimble enough to enable LP
> bug tracking if they see an advantage in it.
> 
> ...

Expecting Ubuntu Touch app developers to field bug reports on
Launchpad is even less reasonable than expecting Android app
developers to field bug reports on Google Code. If you use Launchpad,
that's great! But most app developers are already tracking bug reports
somewhere else. And dealing with bug reports in two places is a nuisance.

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mpt

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