Answers email notification generating duff URL

[James Henstridge]

On 26/03/07, Francis J. Lacoste <francis.lacoste at canonical.com> wrote:
> On March 25, 2007, Alan Pope wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am subscribed to the answers ticket system thing. I get every email as
> > a result and often click the link in emails to get to the ticket. One
> > arrived today which sent me a broken URL:-
> >
> > https://answers.beta.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/yelp/+ticket/4364
> >
> > This generated oops OOPS-449BD16.
> >
> > I can of course get to the ticket by editing the URL - but clearly I
> > should not have to.
> >
> > https://answers.beta.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+ticket/4364
> >
>
> That's because the question was originally filed against the yelp source
> package. But since this was a question about Evolution, the source package
> was probably removed (using Edit question). When you clicked on the URL the
> change of context was in effect and it couldn't find the question.
>
> When the question isn't found in the source package, maybe we should check if
> it's available in the distribution and redirect to the proper context. Please
> file a bug about that against the launchpad-answers prodcut if you think this
> is something that should be fixed.

The current behaviour for bugs is to display the bug, and a message
stating that it has not been filed in this context.

Since answer tickets have a unique ID, but don't share the feature of
having multiple targets, it might be better to always do the redirect
if the wrong context is given (i.e. not just the distribution case).

James.