extra Status for upstream bugs in overview

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

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On Jul 25, 2006, at 1:32 AM, Brad Bollenbach wrote:
> ...
> 2. To minimize confusion, a bug listing should not list the same bug
> more than once, regardless of where the bug's reported.

<https://launchpad.net/bugs/1357>

> I don't have a good solution for this problem yet, but here are some
> brainstorm ideas to help consider different aspects of the problem in
> more detail:
>
> * Allow a bug to have only one status per
> distribution/distrorelease/product, rather than being able to track 
> the assignee, status, milestone, importance, etc. per bug per package. 
> This makes it easy to not duplicate a bug in a distro or product bug 
> listing and reduces the likelihood of seeing dupes in +subscribedbugs 
> and such, and would generally simplify tracking the status of a bug.

Sometimes the same bug will need fixing in multiple packages.

> * Allow a user to associate themselves with distributions and products
> in a user preferences screen. This information could act a magnifying 
> glass on bug listings, and bug pages, and other parts of Launchpad. 
> So, if you're associated with distro A, but not distro B, and a bug is 
> reported in both, you see only the status for distro A in your 
> +subscribedbugs list. Some exceptions would be made, like being shown 
> that a "fix exists" if the bug was fixed upstream or by another 
> distro.

I think that would be unnecessarily difficult to understand and 
configure, as well as not working for people who weren't logged in.

> * (The most obvious one) Collapse all statuses of a bug into a single
> row. mpt would need to be consulted for how best to do this.
> ...

Something like "Confirmed in Ubuntu, Fixed in 2 others" would work if 
the search results weren't a table. I'll need to think more about how 
to show it in the table.

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