Sorting out upstream and project bugtrackers

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

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On Aug 23, 2006, at 5:54 PM, James Henstridge wrote:
>
> On 23/08/06, Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt at canonical.com> wrote:
>> 1.  Fix the bug that currently requires the Sourceforge bug tracker to
>>      be registered eleven times (!) in Launchpad. (We don't need
>>      bugzilla.mozilla.org to be registered separately for each of
>>      Firefox, Thunderbird, Seamonkey, etc, so we shouldn't need
>>      sourceforge.net/tracker to be registered separately for each
>>      Sourceforge project.)
>
> If we want to have a single bug tracker entry for SF, then we'll need
> to make the "remote bug number" consist of three numbers:
> * the bug ID
> * the tracker ID (e.g. Python bugs, Python patches)
> * the project ID (e.g. Python)
>
> This could be handled as three comma separated numbers (since the
> field is a string column).  When constructing the URL, the IDs could
> be split appart again.
> ...

Ugh. :-) In that case, steps 1 and 2 should be swapped: first change 
the bug watch fields to an URL field that detects the correct bug 
tracker (so people can just paste an URL instead of constructing 
comma-separated numbers), *then* merge the various Sourceforge 
bugtrackers.

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Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/
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