Ubuntu Bugzilla to Malone (Launchpad) migration complete

[Daniel Robitaille]

On 1/16/06, Ian Jackson <ian at davenant.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
> When I first came to work on Ubuntu, I was very struck by how much
> less useable and effective Bugzilla is than the Debian BTS[1].  Now I
> am struck by how much less useable and effective Malone is compared to
> Bugzilla.

Personally I have grown to like Bugzilla in the last few months. Maybe
it will come to that level with Malone one day, but for now I miss the
bugzilla (and really like the new look of the gnome bugzilla).  But
Malone has gone through so many interface and detail  changes in the
last 6 months,  some things are still brand new for most of us, while
other things have been around forever.  So I'm hoping it's only a
question of getting used to all of it.

> * Launchpad should not require me to periodically log in again.

it would be nice if this was a bit more permanent.

> * The phrases `Fix Requested In' and `Request fix' seem meaningless to
>   me.  I'm scared to try out clicking on `Request fix' in case it does
>   something stupid.  Presumably these could be translated into
>   some more standard terminology ?

I would replaced the "Fix Requested In" by "Product".  When you click
on it, you can select something else for that column  and it is
labelled as "Product" on that new page.  And these are products, at
different version, or in different distro, but still packages or
products.

As for "Request fix", to follow what the tooltips give us when you
move your mouse on top of the 2 choices, I would replace:
 Request fix:  +Upstream…    +In Distribution…
by
 Mark this bug as occuring:  +Upstream... +In Distribution...

I suspect a lot of people don't know what upstream is (I have seen the
question asked on IRC before), but I cannot think of a good
alternative.

And the one bug status I miss from the bugzilla is "Fixed".  For
example yesterday I upgraded a up-to-date Dapper install to Flight 3,
and a bug disappeared by itself.  So it is now fixed, but the only
choices I had to close my bug were: rejected and  fix released.

Well, I don't know if a fix was released or uploaded that solved it,
or it was simply some config files misconfiguration that sorted
themselves after the reinstall. I suspect it wasn't an user error
(i.e, invalid since an user wouldn't normally screw up the hibernate
mode of a laptop).  I miss  the catch all "fixed" from the bugzilla
that would have allowed me to closed it at this point without having
to choose a more precise reason.


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Daniel Robitaille