Probe unknown and ambiguous external bug trackers for their type
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Launchpad itself |
Triaged
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
This depends on bug 51215, and develops it some more.
Bug 45386 is adding support for Savannah - though not status syncing - and it's highlighted a problem: it's difficult/
It might be more effective to probe new bug trackers to guess their type. That way we can automatically disambiguate between Savannah and SourceForge. We can also confirm that new trackers are indeed real trackers. For those that are not, like http://
If the probing is reliable enough then we can also stop asking users what kind of bug tracker they are trying to create. Just add it as UNKNOWN, marked as unprobed, then the next checkwatches run can ascertain what type it is - i.e. checkwatches does outstanding probes before getting status updates.
We don't ask users when we auto-create bug trackers from comments, so why not skip that question all the time?
Changed in malone: | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in launchpad: | |
importance: | Medium → Low |