Don't let a bug tracker being unrecognised stop a user from creating a bug watch.
Bug #629411 reported by
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This bug affects 5 people
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Launchpad itself |
Triaged
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Low
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
When you want to link to an upstream bug report, but the upstream bug tracker is not recognized, Launchpad currently prevents you from creating a bug watch at all.
Instead, upon detecting an unrecognised bug tracker, Launchpad should change the selected option on the +choose-
Revision history for this message
| Graham Binns (gmb) wrote | #1 |
| summary: |
- Allow unrecognized bug watches + Don't let a bug tracker being unrecognised stop a user from creating a + bug watch. |
| description: | updated |
| Changed in malone: | |
| status: | New → In Progress |
| status: | In Progress → Triaged |
| importance: | Undecided → Low |
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I don't think that this is something that we need to implement. There are many problems with allowing arbitrary URLs, not least the pain of removing ones that are obviously spam. Moreover, we currently offer the option of "just mark this bug as upstream; I don't have any way to link it at the moment" which I think will sufficiently handle your use case.
Maybe what we should do is to have this become the default option for remote bug URLs whose bug tracker we can't recognise, rather than actually recording any arbitrary URL.