Launchpad itself

"Sort by importance" sorts "Unknown" (from external bug trackers) on top

Bug #193845 reported by Daniel Hahler on 2008-02-20

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Launchpad itself	Triaged	Low	Unassigned

Bug Description

On a page like https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-main-sponsors/+subscribedbugs the bugs with Unknown status are sorted to the top.

IMHO "Unknown" should get sorted to the end, but at least not above "High"/"Medium"/"Low".

It may save time to fix this bug at the same time as bug 44238.

See original description

Tags:

Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) on 2008-02-21

description:	updated
Changed in malone:
importance:	Undecided → Medium
status:	New → Confirmed

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Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote on 2011-09-23:

A bug which hasn't been triaged is one of the most important bugs to look at - it might be a critical (or it might not). We have changed our default sort of importances a little since this bug was filed, but there is a big open question about what the 'right' sort order is - and the answer probably depends on who is looking :).

I'm closing this because its essentially a dupe of other bugs about importance but I don't have the right number handy to dup it on.

Changed in launchpad:
status:	Triaged → Won't Fix

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Martin Pool (mbp) wrote on 2011-09-23:

I think this is actually a different bug to what Robert's comment seems to think it is.

This is not about 'undecided' bugs sorting to the top, for which there are other bugs. This is about the fairly obscure 'unknown' status, which you cannot create through the lp ui and that only comes up when lp has failed to understand an external bug tracker's importance. There is nothing often the user can do about this (short of patching Launchpad) so sorting them at the top does not make sense in the same way sorting 'undecided' to the top arguably makes sense.