Comment 1 for bug 32795

On 24-Feb-06, at 8:01 PM, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:

> Public bug reported:
> https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/32795
>
> Affects: malone (upstream)
> Severity: Normal
> Priority: (none set)
> Status: Unconfirmed
>
> Description:
> At the time of writing, according to <https://launchpad.net/distros/
> ubuntu/+bugs>, these are the numbers of open bugs in the various
> Ubuntu releases:
> Dapper (1)
> Breezy (29)
> Hoary (8)
> Warty (2)
>
> That's surprising, since Ubuntu has 8388 open bugs in total. This
> seems
> to be because we don't let people track distribution release
> infestations (and even if we did let people do that, they probably
> wouldn't bother), so Malone has no way of knowing whether an Ubuntu
> bug
> exists in a particular distro release or not.
>
> So perhaps the distribution release bugs page (and the related portlet
> on the distro bugs page) should make it clear that these are bugs
> reported about that distribution release in particular, and that most
> bugs are reported about the distribution in general (linking to its
> page).
>
> See also bug 228 and bug 28710.

Good point. There's little chance that a human could reconcile the
difference between 8388 and the counts in the portlet.

More specifically, the wording should be clear that the smaller
reports are security/backport bugs.

  status confirmed

Cheers,

--
Brad Bollenbach