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Better duplicate searching in Launchpad's own projects

Bug #174443 reported by Diogo Matsubara
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Bug Description

Since we use separate projects for the different parts of the Launchpad application (Translations, Code, Bugs, Soyuz, etc) when someone is going to report a bug against Launchpad (the project itself) we should search all the projects belonging to the Launchpad project group to try to identify duplicates.

Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
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Diogo Matsubara (matsubara) wrote : Re: Project groups need option to offer bug/question suggestions across projects

This will be worked on post 2.0

Christian Reis (kiko)
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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote :

This would be appropriate for Launchpad, because we're abusing a project group to manage a single project.

I don't know of any other project group it would be appropriate for. For example, if Thunderbird was using Launchpad but reporting a bug on Thunderbird returned suggestions from Eudora, Firefox, Seamonkey, and Sunbird, the suggestions would be mostly useless. The same applies to Apache, Gnome, and KDE.

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Scott Kitterman (kitterman) wrote : Re: [Bug 174443] Re: Better duplicate searching in Launchpad's own projects

Do *-backports projects get included in Ubuntu dupe checks? They should, I
think. That's the only case I can think of.

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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote :

Unfortunately, Launchpad is currently incapable of knowing that Ubuntu and the various -backports projects are related (bug 30419). And if it did, they'd probably be handled as part of the same Ubuntu project, rather than as separate projects in a project group.

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Scott Kitterman (kitterman) wrote :

Right, but that's an implementation detail. It'd still be useful to have
them linked for dupe detection.

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Karl Fogel (kfogel) wrote :

As Matthew pointed out later in https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/malone/+bug/317258/comments/2, there probably are other groups of related projects using Launchpad:

   "Granted, ... Launchpad abuses multiple 'projects' for a single project, but I expect similar issues occur with bugs in Bazaar vs. Bazaar plug-ins, Xorg vs. individual video drivers, network-manager vs. wireless drivers, gnome-power-manager vs. the Linux kernel, and so on."

So although this bug is about better duplicate searching among Launchpad's own projects, it might be useful to think about implementing duplicate checking among related projects generically too.

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Scott Kitterman (kitterman) wrote :

Sigh ...

I don't think any such group collectively use Launchpad as a bug tracker.
The current need for user to understand Launchpad's internal architecture
to do this is user hostile.

Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
Changed in launchpad-answers:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Triaged
tags: added: feature
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Diogo Matsubara (matsubara) wrote :

On comment #6 Karl said: "So although this bug is about better duplicate searching among Launchpad's own projects, it might be useful to think about implementing duplicate checking among related projects generically too."

This is filed as bug 380862

Changed in malone:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Triaged
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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote :

This bug was fixed, for the purposes of Launchpad itself, by merging its projects into a single project.

If it's still valid for the Ubuntu backports case, rewriting it with details would be informative.

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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote :

Given the existence of bug 380862 for projects other than Launchpad's own, marking this as fixed.

Changed in launchpad:
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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