[Bug 231316] Re: Bugs should be sent to ubuntu-motu for a trial period

[Emmet Hikory]

Sending bugs via email only makes sense when the bug reception engine
expects email.  As a result, the appropriate means to map the behaviour
of sending to the BTS is to send to the LP mail interface.  While this
has the side effect of possibly generating duplicate or inadequate bugs,
this is also true for this functionality within the BTS.  Further, it
makes sense to leverage ptyhon-launchpad to generate canidate
duplicates, etc.

Extending these tools to provide a different service, specifically to
integrate with launchpad in a different way is really creating a new
tool.  Sending people to a webpage (e.g.
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug) doesn't map well to many of the
use cases where a user might be using reportbug or reportbug-ng (e.g.
not having a web browser installed).

Handling these requests is a different matter, but I submit that if LP
is going to accept bugs by use of the email interface, it is no
different to have LP accept bugs by use of various Debian BTS-oriented
tools that may benefit from a patch.  How these bugs are handled is a
different matter: if triage of these is expected to be a considerable
additional load (remembering that LP requires signed mail and a valid
account), how is this different from any other use of the LP mail
interface?

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Bugs should be sent to ubuntu-motu for a trial period
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/231316
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