[maemo-community] Bug database setting for products in Extras

[From: Jeremiah Foster]

On Jan 4, 2010, at 12:49 PM, Andrew Flegg wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 11:44, Andre Klapper <aklapper at openismus.com> wrote:
>> 
>> currently
>> http://wiki.maemo.org/Extras-testing/QA_Checklist#Lack_of_bug_reporting_database
>> says:
>> "http://bugs.maemo.org/ is the preferred option. Otherwise it needs to
>> be identified in the http://maemo.org/packages/ page."
>> 
>> Not that I'm lazy, more that I think it might be overkill.
> 
> Agreed. Is anybody going to take ownership of the changes which have
> been proposed for the QA list over the last few months of use? Sprint
> meeting tomorrow, hint hint ;-)
> 
>> Hence I'd like to clarify that it's also possible to put an email
>> address there if they expect only very few bug reports and think that
>> they can handle it via email.
> 
> Entirely agreed. I also think the lack of one altogether should imply
> the package page itself; but perhaps we're best off having it be a
> conscious choice by the packager. Should maemian be updated with these
> fields?

That would make sense. :)

On a related note, I have been in contact with upstream (lintian) and they see the value of having a more flexible version of their software that can be used by other distros that are debian like. This means that we can potentially get a lot of QA checks for free and turn off those that are irrelevant. 

I am trying to stay up to date with lintian so hopefully we'll see more integration from lintian into maemian now that upstream is onboard.

Jeremiah