Answers email notification generating duff URL

[Francis J. Lacoste]

On March 26, 2007, James Henstridge wrote:
> 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).
>

That problem is now known as bug 112990
https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad-answers/+bug/112990



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Francis J. Lacoste
francis.lacoste at canonical.com
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