Ubuntu Bugzilla to Malone (Launchpad) migration complete

[Matthew East]

On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 20:56 -0800, Daniel Robitaille wrote:
> > > 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.
> > > ...
> >
> > Well, that's the problem: sometimes it's a product, sometimes it's a
> > distribution, sometimes it's a distribution package, and sometimes it's
> > a distribution release package.
> 
> And maybe Malone is trying to be too many things at the same time. 
> What we need  is a bug reporting system for the packages in Ubuntu 
> that ordinary users can easily use and function in.   What we are
> getting is something quite capable of many things, well beyond
> Ubuntu-land only,  but I think also quite capable of confusing the end
> users.   I know what a product and a distribution is.  I'm not sure
> what is a  "distribution package" and a "distribution release
> package".

{snip}

> And you are right and I was wrong: things in that column means
> multiple things. In my mind, there are only packages/product, which is
> what we are used to in bugzilla.   I was looking at this bug:
> https://launchpad.net/products/nautilus/+bug/9758
> 
> If I click on "Nautilus (upstream)", I get that Nautilus is a product
> If I click on "Nautilus (Ubuntu)", I get that Nautilus source package
> 
> I don't see why they should be different.  They are both an
> application, one coming from upstream in Gnome, one installed on my
> ubuntu computer.     They are both a package/product, but one coming
> from somwhere else, and one located in Ubuntu;  so the same product,
> but different "versions".

I agree broadly with this. I really applaud the fact that launchpad aims
to be a great tool to combine multiple distros and upstream work, but
right now, for a user, the distinction between products/distros and so
on, is so confusing as to make launchpad really hard to use.

Matt
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