Remote bug tracker

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

On Jun 13, 2007, at 2:26 AM, shirish wrote:
> ...
> The webpage is user-unfriendly.
> https://bugs.beta.launchpad.net/bugs/bugtrackers/+newbugtracker
> ...
> 1.  The differences between Name (Required) & Title (Required)
> are they always the same or are there differences sometimes.
> This does confuse newcomers. In the reference model its one & the same.
> If this is true in all cases then why is Title (Required) there, it 
> could be some kind of silent thing so the name becomes the Title. If 
> there can be differences then something which illustrates what choices 
> or needs to be written should be pointed out.

That's a good point. I've reported this as a bug.
<https://launchpad.net/bugs/120142>

I've also reported the "Summary" field and "Contact details" fields as 
being unnecessary.
<https://launchpad.net/bugs/120147>
<https://launchpad.net/bugs/120150>

I reported a couple of other bugs I noticed in the bug tracker pages, 
too. So thanks for bringing these pages to my attention. :-)

> 2. Another thing which is confusing is the way the page is structured
> wouldn't it be much much better if for e.g. we had something like :-
>
> Name  (Required) An URL-friendly name for the bug tracker, such as
> "mozilla-bugs".
>
> (box to fill)
>
> Summary  (Required) A brief introduction or overview of this bug
> tracker instance.
>
>   (box to fill)

Normally it's better for a hint to go underneath the form field. It 
didn't work well here because the form fields were too confusing 
altogether. I think the solution is to fix the fields, rather than to 
move the hints.

> ...
> Another thing, there needs to be a team or place to notify when a new
> bug tracker is done. I am not the project admin or anything for a
> remote bug tracker but would like that the bug tracker gets associated
> as upstream not limited to n no. of packages using the same bugzilla.
> For e.g. GNOME bugzilla which has so many products for which it is the
> bugzilla.

I'm not sure what you mean. Are you saying that you want to be notified 
when a project in Launchpad is associated with a previously-registered 
bug tracker? If so, what would you use those notifications for?

> Lastly, if there is a bug & upstream is available then which upstream
> to choose ?
>
> Hypothetical :-  Let's say I have problem with the deluge-torrent
> package, now I do know that deluge-torrent package is firstly packaged 
> by debian while the deluge guys also have their own trac (bugzilla) 
> where they provide support. In this case should I choose one or can I 
> choose both? sending a bug report to debian as well as posting the 
> same at deluge so both people can look & find a solution.
> ...

In the real world Debian may be upstream for Ubuntu, but in Launchpad 
it isn't. This confusion will be resolved eventually.
<https://launchpad.net/bugs/67653>

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