Unnecessarily difficult to find how to change status or reassign a bug

I agree with the problem description (though I couldn't find a reference to it in bug 1056). I don't have a clue off-hand as to how to solve this without doing away with the bug page and going with the "always-in-a-context" principle. I think it's time to call in help from above.

I agree with your assessment. It's also consistent with what at least one user (tseng) reported in an impromptu user testing session. To paraphrase him, splitting one bug over two different pages "just doesn't compute."

Closing a bug is bug 1320.

How about just putting an explanation under the table: To change this bug status or assign it to someone, click on the product or distribution affected by the change ?

Why not just add the pencil icon at the left of the name ? I think I may have give it try. (Yes, I also had to ask the question today: how can I change the status of a bug) and was kindly redirected here.

I ran into this too. No amount of playing around on the page helped, since I assumed that obviously for a project named "paramiko", a link called "paramiko" would go to the project page. I finally had to ask on IRC for help, assuming the page was just broken.

This bug looks like it has been open for a long time. :(

Please increase the importance of this bug.

I'm hurt by this too. It'd be much more intuitive to use say, "Assigned To", to reassign bugs. Don't you agree?

Even though someone told me to use the 'bzr (upstream)' link, it still took me a long time to see it. I kept looking around the "Assigned To" area.

I would propose adding two new links to the same form in the left hand menu just like "Visibility/Security" :
* "Assign to people/team" -> https://launchpad.net/malone/+bug/$BUG-ID/+editstatus
* "Assign/change status" -> https://launchpad.net/malone/+bug/$BUG-ID/+editstatus

Seems to me like a pencil icon or expandable arrow icon on the left of the bug task would be fine for helping using figure things out. With 9 duplicates, it's certainly worth increasing the severity of this bug to High, IMO.

I think any of the recommendations as to how to fix this proposed above would be fine. Personally I found myself looking for it in the "Actions" pane on the left, so my vote would be to put it there. I also agree it should be a higher priority, as I'm sure there are numerous bugs out there that are sitting in a status that's not entirely accurate because people don't know how to edit that value.

I have submitted a patch to PQM that adds a swizzle indicator, but mpt doesn't agree with Mark on making the target name link to the target itself and adding an [edit] link for each row, so I'll let him handle the rest.

I believe this is now properly addressed. If this is still an issue we can revisit this work in another bug with more concrete user data if possible.

(The sequel to this bug report is bug 137448.)