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

[From: Andre Klapper]

Am Montag, den 04.01.2010, 11:49 +0000 schrieb Andrew Flegg:
> 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?

The main disadvantage I see when not using bugs.maemo.org is that we
don't have a unique entry point for bug reports. However that's not a
new problem.
I was for example asked by my g/f where to file GPE bugs (they have
their own bug database), and I wonder how a normal user can find out
from the User Interface of an application where/how to report issues
(e.g. if the XSBC-Bugtracker field defines only an email address).

andre
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Andre Klapper (maemo.org bugmaster)