Crash when trying to "request fix in distribution"

[Matt Zimmerman]

I just tried to associate the eclipse bug I just reported (2828) with Ubuntu, but "A system error occurred". I selected "request fix in distribution" then entered "ubuntu" and "eclipse" for the distribution and source package, respectively.

On an unrelated note, I find the "request fix" terminology very confusing. It makes it seem like this is a system for making request s of developers, rather than reporting bugs.

[Christian Reis (kiko)]

I'm looking into your report.

As for the latter note, I somewhat agree it is a bit confusing. The concept of tasks however fits well with that text -- a task is really a request to fix the bug in a certain context. The bug itself is just a report, and an alternative to avoid this confusion would be allowing people to file bug reports and enter as much information as they knew -- omitting distribution/release/etc if they didn't know at the moment of the report. Of course, you could argue that would result in a reduced number of useful bug reports.

Perhaps the best solution is just renaming to say "Indicate bug also occurs in a distribution". What do you think?

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 10:14:15PM -0000, Christian Reis wrote:
> Perhaps the best solution is just renaming to say "Indicate bug also
> occurs in a distribution". What do you think?

I think that would be an improvement over the existing terminology.
Something like "Confirm presence of bug in ..."

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 - mdz

[Diogo Matsubara (matsubara)]

Matt, is it possible that this bug might be related to bug 4845?
I think the bug was triggering the same database constraint.
Can you confirm that?

[Diogo Matsubara (matsubara)]

Nevermind, I just confirmed it. I'm duping this bug.