Launchpad itself

+packagebugs could have better filtering.

Bug #61024 reported by William Grant
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Bug Description

As a member of Ubuntu's MOTU Science team, I try to triage bugs in the science-related packages. However, it is non-trivial to do so, as the only way of getting bugs for packages the team is a bug contact for is +packagebugs, and that is almost entirely useless with a large number of packages. There is no way to sort by any of the bug numbers, and no way to filter anything. If I want to see packages with bugs, I have to search manually through the list looking for a line which isn't entirely zeros. It's incredibly inefficient.

For an example, see https://launchpad.net/people/motuscience/+packagebugs, and try to do something useful with that page. It's not easy.

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Tags: lp-bugs motu
William Grant (wgrant)
description: updated
Diogo Matsubara (matsubara)
Changed in malone:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Diogo Matsubara (matsubara) wrote :

Hi William as a workaround you could use the https://launchpad.net/people/motuscience/+subscribedbugs page.
Thank you for your report.

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Brad Bollenbach (bradb) wrote : Re: [Bug 61024] Re: +packagebugs with a large number of packages approaches uselessness

On 19-Sep-06, at 12:19 PM, Diogo Matsubara wrote:

> Hi William as a workaround you could use the https://launchpad.net/
> people/motuscience/+subscribedbugs page.
> Thank you for your report.

This is not an equal solution; +subscribedbugs lists only bugs to
which the user or team are directly subscribed, not via bug contacts.

I agree that +packagebugs starts looking pretty mediocre after a
certain number of packages, and we should probably give it some
interest after 1.0.

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William Grant (wgrant) wrote :

This situation wouldn't be quite so bad if +bugs-text had some filtering (this is bug #51836), as it would be possible to parse and list package bugs in a sane manner using an external script. I've written one to filter down to the packages which have bugs and give a number for each package, and a total, but it's not particularly useful without being able to get titles/statuses/etc. of bugs. This is making handling of older science bugs somewhat difficult.

Christian Reis (kiko)
Changed in malone:
importance: Undecided → High
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Björn Tillenius (bjornt) wrote :

It's now possible to search for a bug contact's bug using the advanced search, which is basically the same as using +packagebugs. I still think that +packagebugs should be improved to provide better filtering from that page as well, but it's not as important anymore, so I'm dropping the priority slightly.

Changed in malone:
importance: High → Medium
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Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (pochu) wrote :

At least it would be really useful if the columns were sortable.

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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote :

I can't tell whether this bug report is about searching, filtering, or sorting. I've reported bug 284388 about the particular problem of packages with zero open bug reports.

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Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote :

I think 284388 entirely supercedes this.

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