Launchpad itself

misleading bug status in bugs affecting multiple projects

Bug #643376 reported by Lars Kumbier
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Bug Description

If one bug[1] has more than one project affecting it, only the newest project entry is shown in the "Report a bug" form, when a summary has been entered and the system presents a list of possible bug candidates to eliminate duplicates. However, the newest project might not be the one that this bug affects primarily. In this example[1], the bug affected 3 projects initially, but was narrowed down to one project. In consequence, the other two were set to "invalid", which ultimately shows as the bug status in the "report a bug" view.

I therefore suggest to change the behavior of the list overview in the "report a bug" form to first filter by status (ordering the "invalid" status last) and then choosing the project and status to display by some other means (like the current way of taking the last affected project added).

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[1] e.g. https://bugs.launchpad.net/rhythmbox-ubuntuone-music-store/+bug/634458

Tags: lp-bugs
Edwin Grubbs (edwin-grubbs)
affects: launchpad → malone
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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote :

The function for choosing which context to show should be the same function used to fix bug 2816.

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Gavin Panella (allenap) wrote :

mpt's comment about bug 2816 is interesting - and worthy of fixing - but I think the behaviour described in this bug is correct.

Bug 634458 is Invalid in rhythmbox-ubuntuone-music-store. If you go to https://bugs.launchpad.net/rhythmbox-ubuntuone-music-store/+filebug and enter "until manual page refresh", bug 634458 will be displayed in the candidate list, with the status of Invalid, which is correct for the context.

If you go to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntuone-servers/+filebug and enter "until manual page refresh", bug 634458 will be displayed also, but with the status of In Progress (for now anyway).

It might be worth showing in the candidate list that the bug is invalid in rhythmbox-ubuntuone-music-store but valid in ubuntuone-servers, instead of only showing the former. In any case, I'm marking this bug as Invalid for now; I think a new bug should be filed if the candidate list should be enhanced.

Changed in malone:
status: New → Invalid
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