Bugzilla import should do something sensible with UPSTREAM bugs
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Launchpad itself |
Fix Released
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Medium
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James Henstridge | ||
Bug Description
The Ubuntu Bugzilla uses the UPSTREAM bug status to indicate that the bug has been reported upstream, and the maintainer is waiting for a fix. When the upstream bug gets closed, the Ubuntu bug is manually updated accordingly (e.g. a new package might be rolled and the bug moved to PENDINGUPLOAD).
The Malone equivalent of this scheme is to create an upstream bug task on the bug, and attach a bug watch to it. The new bug task's status will then track the remote bug.
Issues to solve:
* how do we determine the remote bug to watch? In many cases the "URL" field holds the appropriate bugzilla URL (457 of 695 UPSTREAM bugs in my database dump).
* how do we select the upstream product to open the bug task on? We can link some distro packages to upstream products, but not all (in some cases we don't manage to find a distro package even ...).
Perhaps the answer is to just create the link when possible, and skip it when not.
| Changed in launchpad: | |
| assignee: | nobody → jamesh |
| status: | New → Accepted |
| James Henstridge (jamesh) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in launchpad: | |
| status: | Accepted → PendingUpload |
| Changed in launchpad: | |
| status: | PendingUpload → Fixed |
The above scheme has been implemented in my branch.