"Summary" shouldn't be necessary for bug trackers

Bug #120147 reported by Matthew Paul Thomas
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Launchpad itself
Fix Released
High
Eleanor Berger

Bug Description

<https://launchpad.net/bugs/bugtrackers/+newbugtracker> requires a "Summary" of the bug tracker: "A brief introduction or overview of this bug tracker instance."

Out of the 95 bug trackers registered at the time of writing, 91 of them have a Summary that talks only about which projects use the tracker, what kind of tracker it is, and/or (occasionally) what its URL is. And Launchpad already has more structured database fields for knowing all of those things.

(The four exceptions are <https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/bugtrackers/freedesktop-bugs>, which says "french keyboards are always complicated"; <https://launchpad.net/bugs/bugtrackers/linux-kernel-bugs>, which says that it's not for bugs about distribution kernels; <https://launchpad.net/bugs/bugtrackers/mozdev-bugs>, which says that it's not for bugs about Firefox or Thunderbird; and <https://launchpad.net/bugs/bugtrackers/libburn-bugs>, which says "The trac bug tracker doesn't just do bug triaging". I don't think any of these are informative enough to justify the field.)

The redundancy of the Summary field is hinted at in <https://launchpad.net/bugs/bugtrackers/kerneltools-bugs>, where both "Summary" and "Contact details" have been filled in with "Blah blah blah blah Stupid LP boxes".

I propose that the Summary field be deleted. Instead, the page for a bug tracker should more prominently list which projects are registered in Launchpad as using the tracker, what kind of tracker it is, and what its URL is.

See also bug 4592

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Revision history for this message
Shirish Agarwal (shirishag75) wrote :

+1 on it, OT but I am the one who made that libburn-bugs one, there was somebody on #launchpad telling me to give some information about the bug tracker. Didn't know what else to write. As you said if I had written the URL's it wouldn't have achieved anything.

Changed in malone:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
description: updated
Changed in malone:
importance: Undecided → High
Changed in malone:
assignee: nobody → intellectronica
Changed in malone:
status: Confirmed → In Progress
Changed in malone:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Changed in malone:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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