Comment 5 for bug 4592

On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 06:37:25PM -0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Diogo Matsubara writes ("[Bug 4592] Re: Add Watch page (+addwatch) should make it easy to add a new bugtracker"):
> > we don't have the +addwatch page anymore and the pages (+distrotask and
> > +upstreamtask) where you can add a watch now displays an error message
> > pointing you to +newbugtracker if you enter an URL of a bug tracker
> > that's not registered in Launchpad. Can this bug be closed?
>
> Does LP now reliably automatically recognise every remote bug tracker
> it can cope with ? I tried

Yes, the ones it can cope with: Bugzilla, Debbugs, Roundup, Sourceforge and
Trac.
If you enter an URL like:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.com.br/show_bug.cgi?id=613
You'll see a message like:

"The bug tracker at http://bugzilla.mozilla.com.br/ isn't registered in
Launchpad. You need to __register it__ before you can link any bugs to it."

where "register it" is a link to +newbugtracker.

> https://launchpad.net/products/malone/+bug/4592/+upstreamtask
> and filling in
> autopkgtest (a product of mine just to fill something in)
> http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ (a random URL)
> and I get just an error message:
> Launchpad doesn't know what kind of bug tracker this URL is pointing
> at.

Perhaps the message should say something like:

"Launchpad doesn't yet support the kind of bug tracker this URL is pointing
at. Please __file a bug__ requesting support for this BT."

What do you think?
--
Diogo M. Matsubara