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On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:53:19 -0600, Brian Murray <br...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > Hello everybody, > > As a part of the Increase Apport Adoption specification[1] we are going > to kick off an experiment and redirect all of Ubuntu's /+filebug links > in Launchpad to https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs. This > change has been tested on staging.launchpad.net already and will be > landing shortly on edge.launchpad.net(*). > > If you review the specification and the documentation bug reporters will > be redirected to, you will notice that we spent a lot of time and energy > on ensuring that we improve the quality of bugs when they are reported. > The time many of us spend on triaging very incomplete bugs is not > sustainable given the volume of bug reports. Having reporters use > ubuntu-bug (apport more specifically) to report bugs will reduce many of > these problems for us. > > In order to make the transition for our users smoother, we'd like to ask > you to help out with a few things: > > 1) If you take care of a high-profile package, consider adding it to > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage which is linked to from > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs. > > 2) Please consider writing an apport hook for the packages you take care > of, if you need special information in bug reports - it's REALLY easy: > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Apport/DeveloperHowTo#Package%20Hooks > > 3) If the area of Ubuntu that you take care of is better suited by > symptom based bug reporting ("storage", "boot", "install", "sound", > etc.), consider contributing to the apport-symptoms package - it too is > REALLY easy: > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Apport/DeveloperHowTo#Symptoms > > By helping us receive higher quality bug reports, we will help to help > make Ubuntu even better! > > [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Specs/IncreaseApportAdoption > (*) There will be a +filebug?no-redirect if you really really need it. > > -- > Brian Murray > On behalf of the Ubuntu QA Team -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss