Can't change the distribution for a distro package bug report
Bug #50894 reported by
Matthew Paul Thomas
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Launchpad itself |
Fix Released
|
Low
|
William Grant | ||
Bug Description
When a bug is reported on the wrong distribution (such as bug 50741, or the bug alluded to in bug 50018), you have to do a two-step of saying it "also" occurs in the correct distribution, then marking it as "Rejected" it in the incorrect one. Not only is this slow and non-obvious, it will be confusing once multiple distributions are actively using Malone, because the bug may actually occur in the mistakenly-chosen distribution.
With bug reports on products, it is possible to just change the product; this should be possible for distributions too.
| Changed in malone: | |
| importance: | Untriaged → Medium |
| status: | Unconfirmed → Confirmed |
Revision history for this message
| Brad Bollenbach (bradb) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in malone: | |
| status: | Confirmed → Needs Info |
Revision history for this message
| Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in malone: | |
| status: | Needs Info → Confirmed |
Revision history for this message
| Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote | #3 |
| Changed in launchpad: | |
| assignee: | nobody → Curtis Hovey (sinzui) |
| importance: | Medium → Low |
| Changed in launchpad: | |
| assignee: | Curtis Hovey (sinzui) → William Grant (wgrant) |
| status: | Triaged → Fix Released |
| tags: | added: disclosure target-picker |
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It's easy to get a product completely wrong, for the same reason it's easy to get a package completely wrong: one could file a gEdit bug that's really a GTK+ issue, an Evolution bug that's really a Cairo issue, or a Launchpad bug that's really a Malone issue.
But to get the distrbution wrong can only be explained, IMHO, by terrible flaws in the design of the filebug workflow, or near fatal blood-alcohol levels. The current flaw is that we have this contextless filebug page:
https:/
and it defaults to Baltix.
So I think the real fix here, incrementally speaking, is not to allow changing distro, but to remove the +package page, and replace it with a "jump to distribution" box like we already have for products.
Thoughts?