Comment 2 for bug 341220

We should add some sort of support for "types of bugs", as stated in bug 553507 already ( https://bugs.launchpad.net/malone/+bug/553507 ), to improve awareness of issues relevant to me and my individual skillset for contributing solutions.

Gnome and Ubuntu build on contributions from a huge and very diverse community of creative people, who all want to help in improving the quality of the products they use.
To bridge the gap between mere using and actually contributing, finding the type of bugs that matches your individual skill set needs to be facilitated as much as possible. This is where thinking in terms of a large community can come in very handy!

Apport is already an enormously great help and Launchpad itself is a revolution in bringing efforts together..

For a better overview on the launchpad side of things, i envision a form of categorising a bug by its required "areas of contribution". This is very different to looking at "symptoms", since it aims at describing "how to help" instead of "what is wrong".

The place to describe "what is wrong" is the bug description.
Tags should rather address the purpose of a query, which in this case is for people to find suitable issues to help resolve.

types of bugs:

*artwork
*language
*usability
*documentation
*performance
*stability
*security

since "security" is already covered elsewhere, one can consider it redundant in the concept at hand.

especially usability and artwork are issues that often have something to do with visual design, artists should be involved, but artists often don't make it across the barrier of developer parlance..