Launchpad must state the project's official services

Bug #597738 reported by Curtis Hovey
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This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Launchpad itself
Won't Fix
High
Unassigned

Bug Description

Project can state they officially use bugs, code, etc..., but that is not useful 75% of the time. When a contributor wants to know where to report a bug, or send a patch, he needs to know where the official service is located. For example. A project can set a remote bug tracker, but the bug tracker is not shown to users--the owner can see it in a form! It is possible to learn repo that Launchpad mirrors if the user knows to look a the details of the project's trunk branch.

The information for each service must be placed in the same location, presented in the same way, for all services. It should be obvious if a project uses launchpad or not, and where the external service is hosted. It must also be obvious when Launchpad does not know. There are proably 3 states:

    1. Lp does not know. the app page states this and the Lp app cannot be used
    2. The project uses an external service. The app page states this, the Lp app may be activited for syncing
    3. The project uses Lp, the app page states this and the app is active.

In the context of Ubuntu, bug tracking and code hosting are most important. Translations, blueprints (probably the project's wiki), and answers should behave the same way, but are less urgent.

Original discussion about this issue is at https://lists.launchpad.net/launchpad-dev/msg03973.html

Related branches

Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
Changed in malone:
importance: Undecided → High
milestone: none → 10.07
status: New → Triaged
Changed in launchpad-code:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → High
milestone: none → 10.07
Changed in blueprint:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Low
Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
Changed in launchpad-answers:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Low
Changed in rosetta:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Low
Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
Changed in launchpad-registry:
assignee: nobody → Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
status: Triaged → In Progress
Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
Changed in launchpad-answers:
status: Triaged → In Progress
Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
Changed in launchpad-code:
milestone: 10.08 → 10.09
Changed in malone:
milestone: 10.08 → 10.09
Changed in launchpad-answers:
milestone: none → 10.09
Changed in launchpad-registry:
milestone: 10.08 → 10.09
Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
Changed in launchpad-answers:
assignee: nobody → Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
Changed in malone:
assignee: nobody → Edwin Grubbs (edwin-grubbs)
Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
Changed in launchpad-registry:
assignee: Curtis Hovey (sinzui) → nobody
Revision history for this message
Launchpad QA Bot (lpqabot) wrote : Bug fixed by a commit
tags: added: qa-needstesting
Changed in launchpad-answers:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
Changed in launchpad-registry:
status: In Progress → Triaged
Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
tags: added: qa-ok
removed: qa-needstesting
Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
Changed in malone:
milestone: 10.09 → 10.10
Changed in launchpad-code:
milestone: 10.09 → 10.10
Changed in launchpad-registry:
milestone: 10.09 → 10.10
Brad Crittenden (bac)
Changed in launchpad-code:
status: Triaged → In Progress
assignee: nobody → Brad Crittenden (bac)
Brad Crittenden (bac)
Changed in malone:
status: Triaged → In Progress
Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
Changed in launchpad-answers:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Brad Crittenden (bac)
description: updated
Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
Changed in launchpad-registry:
status: Triaged → In Progress
Changed in blueprint:
assignee: nobody → j.c.sackett (jcsackett)
status: Triaged → In Progress
milestone: none → 10.10
Changed in rosetta:
milestone: none → 10.10
Changed in malone:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
j.c.sackett (jcsackett)
Changed in rosetta:
assignee: nobody → j.c.sackett (jcsackett)
status: Triaged → In Progress
Revision history for this message
Launchpad QA Bot (lpqabot) wrote :
tags: added: qa-needstesting
removed: qa-ok
Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
tags: added: qa-ok
removed: qa-needstesting
Revision history for this message
Launchpad QA Bot (lpqabot) wrote :
tags: added: qa-needstesting
removed: qa-ok
Changed in blueprint:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote :

Setting to QA-OK so we get sensible deployment reports. The blueprints thing doesn't actually appear to be linked in anywhere though, so its really 'incremental'.

tags: added: qa-ok
removed: qa-needstesting
Brad Crittenden (bac)
Changed in launchpad-code:
status: In Progress → Won't Fix
Revision history for this message
j.c.sackett (jcsackett) wrote :

Moved Translations task to its own bug (bug #643545) and marked as won't fix here to aid in release tracking.

Changed in rosetta:
status: In Progress → Won't Fix
Changed in malone:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Changed in blueprint:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
Changed in launchpad-registry:
status: In Progress → Won't Fix
Revision history for this message
Launchpad QA Bot (lpqabot) wrote :
tags: added: qa-needstesting
removed: qa-ok
j.c.sackett (jcsackett)
tags: added: qa-ok
removed: qa-needstesting
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