Activity log for bug #36645

Date Who What changed Old value New value Message
2006-03-25 22:18:28 Sylvain Defresne bug added bug
2006-04-21 01:37:53 Matthew Paul Thomas description Before submitting a bug in Malone, I generally try to search if no such bug has already been reported, but Malone has failed me many times recently leading me to reports duplicate (that I promptly marked as such) as it said that no bugs was found for the package I was trying to report bug against, but once the bug was reported, I saw that there was many bugs against the package in the recently reported bug box (in the bottom right corner). Generally, my operation mode for searching possible duplicate before reporting a bug is : 1. I click on Distributions 2. I choose Ubuntu 3. I enter the package name in the search box (for exemple gconf-editor) 4. I click on the Bugs link on the top right box 5. I look in the list of bugs, and as I don't find a bug corresponding to my bug I click on Report a bug link 6. I enter information about my bug 7. I'm redirected to the new bug page When reaching this page, the bottom right box contains the list of the most recently reported bug against this package. And there are many bugs that I was not able to find during step 5 ! And more than once, I find that my bug is a duplicate and mark it as such. I think this is really annoying as it waste both my time (I report a bug that has already been reported) and developpers (since I can't close my bug, even if I can mark it as duplicate) that will have to handle many duplicates. A distro release source package bugs page should contain a prominent link to the corresponding distro source package bugs page. Something like: These are just the bugs nominated for fixing in <distro release name>. __All bugs in <distribution> <package>__ Similarly, a distro release bugs page should contain a prominent link to the corresponding distribution bugs page.
2006-04-21 01:37:53 Matthew Paul Thomas title Problem when searching bugs Link prominently from distro release bugs pages to distribution bugs pages
2006-08-24 10:54:03 Björn Tillenius malone: status Unconfirmed Confirmed
2006-08-24 10:54:03 Björn Tillenius malone: assignee bradb
2006-08-24 10:54:03 Björn Tillenius malone: statusexplanation
2007-05-22 16:47:01 Diogo Matsubara malone: assignee bradb
2007-08-19 21:40:16 Matthew Paul Thomas description A distro release source package bugs page should contain a prominent link to the corresponding distro source package bugs page. Something like: These are just the bugs nominated for fixing in <distro release name>. __All bugs in <distribution> <package>__ Similarly, a distro release bugs page should contain a prominent link to the corresponding distribution bugs page. A distribution series source package bugs page should contain a prominent link to the corresponding distro source package bugs page. Something like: These are just the bugs nominated for fixing in <distro release name>. See also __all bugs in <distribution> <package>__. The equivalent for a distribution series bugs page is bug 47833.
2010-12-26 10:06:34 Sylvain Defresne removed subscriber Sylvain Defresne
2011-05-30 08:18:27 William Grant removed subscriber Canonical Launchpad Engineering
2011-09-20 21:27:11 Robert Collins summary Link prominently from distro release bugs pages to distribution bugs pages No bugs found when looking at a distro-series specific bug page, but many open on the distro scoped bug page
2011-09-20 21:27:17 Robert Collins launchpad: importance Medium Low
2011-09-21 22:07:23 Robert Collins description A distribution series source package bugs page should contain a prominent link to the corresponding distro source package bugs page. Something like: These are just the bugs nominated for fixing in <distro release name>. See also __all bugs in <distribution> <package>__. The equivalent for a distribution series bugs page is bug 47833. A distribution series source package bugs page should contain a prominent link to the corresponding distro source package bugs page. Something like:   These are just the bugs nominated for fixing in <distro release name>.   See also __all bugs in <distribution> <package>__. The equivalent for a distribution series bugs page is bug 47833. See also: bug 100083 for a related issue with bug searching in the wrong context
2011-09-21 22:09:37 Robert Collins tags lp-bugs ui lp-bugs series-usability ui
2013-08-13 04:59:44 William Grant marked as duplicate 314432