"I don't know" default produces too many package-less bug reports

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

According to Brian Murray, Ubuntu receives too many bug reports with no package specified. He suggests that this could be fixed by checking the radio button next to the package field by default, instead of the radio button next to "I don't know". This way a reporter would have to either enter a package name, or actively choose "I don't know".

It may be wise to compile statistics on what proportion of bug reports start out without a package specified, before and after this change, so the improvement can be measured against the extra annoyance.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

While not a proportion quantities are available at http://people.ubuntu.com/~brian/testing_graphs/nopackage.html.

[Henrik Nilsen Omma (henrik)]

I've marked bug 189923 as a duplicate of this, as they describe the same problem. The solution may need further discussion.

[Graham Binns (gmb)]

This is a really easy fix; we can change the guided filbug form for distros to default to the package text field rather than "I don't know."

[Graham Binns (gmb)]

Didn't land this cycle due to UDS and test failures.

[Björn Tillenius (bjornt)]

This has been marked in progress for over a month. Let's mark it Triaged until work on it begins again.

[Graham Binns (gmb)]

Is this still a bug? Given that we now redirect ubuntu/+filebug, it shouldn't be. I'll mark it as Fix released for now and we can re-open if required.