Bugzilla and Trac plugins: Request for beta testers

[Graham Binns]

Greetings, Launchpadders,

The Launchpad Bugs team needs your help!

We've recently developed Launchpad plugins for Trac and Bugzilla. The
plugins allow bidirectional communication between Launchpad and the
remote bug trackers that have them installed, and we need help testing
them. That's where you come in.

If you know of any bug tracker whose administrators may be interested in
installing the plugin for interoperating with Launchpad - or indeed if
you run such a bug tracker yourself - please email us at
feedback at launchpad.net and let us know.

You can find details on how to install the plugins and what you need to do
to get Launchpad to work with your bugtracker on the Launchpad Help wiki:

For Bugzilla: http://help.launchpad.net/Bugs/BugzillaPlugin
For Trac: http://help.launchpad.net/Bugs/TracPlugin

Installing one of the plugins means that:

 * Launchpad will be able to forward bugs to upstream bug trackers that
   have the plugin installed. Users of those bug trackers won't have to
   check Launchpad for bugs registered against their project; they'll be
   forwarded straight to the upstream tracker.

 * If a bug watch is created against an upstream bug, Launchpad will
   tell the upstream bug tracker which Launchpad bug is watching it.
   This means that not only is there a link in Launchpad to the upstream
   bug, but there's also a link in the upstream bug tracker to the
   Launchpad bug.

 * Launchpad will be able to import comments from upstream bugs which
   are being watched in Launchpad. If you register a bug watch against
   an upstream bug you'll be able to read the conversation about that
   bug on Launchpad, including the comments that are made on the
   upstream bug tracker.

 * Launchpad will be able to push comments to upstream bugs which are
   linked to a Launchpad bug, so if you add a comment on Launchpad in
   reply to a comment which was imported from an upstream bug tracker,
   the comment will automatically be added to the conversation on the
   upstream bug tracker, too. This means that users of both Launchpad
   and the upstream tracker can view the whole conversation about the
   bug without leaving their preferred environments.

Thanks in advance for your help,

Graham

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