Comment 1 for bug 420353

The person who knows that a bug needs to be fixed upstream does not necessarily have time to report the bug upstream (or to check whether it has been already). So instead of requiring those two things to be done at the same time, Launchpad could do a better job of advertising bug reports that have been marked as upstream but not yet linked.

One way of doing this would be an "N bugs need reporting upstream" link on project, distribution, and package Bugs pages, leading to canned search results.

Another way would be to highlight the need on the bug report page itself, one example of a general "here's what this bug report needs now" hint.