Importing comments from a remote bug tracker creates a new "Launchpad" Person for each bug tracker

[Graham Binns]

When we're importing comments from remote bug trackers that use the LP plugins we automatically create Person records for the authors of those comments if we can't find an existing Person record that matches.

The trouble is that we do this for all remote users, including the "Launchpad" user (see https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gobby/+bug/70653/comments/7 for an example; we've created a ~launchpad-gobby-bugs Person here).

Ideally checkwatches would be smart enough to not do this. Perhaps we need a "Launchpad" celebrity.

[Björn Tillenius (bjornt)]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 02:15:28PM -0000, Graham Binns wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> When we're importing comments from remote bug trackers that use the LP
> plugins we automatically create Person records for the authors of those
> comments if we can't find an existing Person record that matches.
>
> The trouble is that we do this for all remote users, including the
> "Launchpad" user (see
> https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gobby/+bug/70653/comments/7
> for an example; we've created a ~launchpad-gobby-bugs Person here).
>
> Ideally checkwatches would be smart enough to not do this. Perhaps we
> need a "Launchpad" celebrity.

I think the right thing to do here is to ignore comments from
"launchpad". We shouldn't import our own comments.

[Graham Binns (gmb)]

> I think the right thing to do here is to ignore comments from
> "launchpad". We shouldn't import our own comments.

Right, I agree.