The following is a list of suggested enhancements to Launchpad bugs and HW database over the next year. The list is compiled by the Launchpad team based on feedback they have received. A priority rating will be assigned to each feature by a representative of MOTU and Ubuntu QA, ReinhardTartler and HenrikOmma respectively, after discussions in the teams. For the QA team the results will be presented to Launchpad Friday Aug. 8th.

== Launchpad bugs ==

|| MOTU || QATeam || Feature || Comments || Estimated Effort* ||
||   || 3 || Tag Discipline || Actually using [[http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Tags|Bug Tags]] for something! || 8 ||
||   || - || Workload estimation || Story points/hours || ||
||   || - || Importing from tarballs || Making it easier for people to import project bugs into Launchpad for bug tracking || 7 ||
||   || - || Project group dupefinder support ||  || 5.5 ||
||   || 2 || Complete Activity Log || Ensuring bug activity captures all bug changes || 12 ||
||   ||   || Bug Activity UI Interleaving || Displaying activity in the comments view || 9 ||
||   || 7 || Me Too || Being able to say and record "this bug affects me to" || 6 ||
||   ||   || Bug Freezing || Marking a bug as frozen, disallowing new comments from non-bug-team-members || ||
||   || 6 || Expired bugs || Allowing us to track expired bugs separately from invalid, including a textual rationale || 4 ||
||   || - || Flip Incomplete to New || Automatically flip bugs from Incomplete when information is provided. || ||
||   ||   || Timebomb New bugs || After 6/N months, all New bugs become Incomplete || ||
||   ||17 || No more Confirmed || With Me Toos and Triaged, removed this confusing status || ||
||   || - || Ignore Subscriptions || Unsubscribing implicit subscribers from specific bugs || 6 ||
||   ||   || Import a remote bug UI || One-push importing and task-annotation from Debbugs & Bugzilla || ||
||   ||15 || Email first-time bug-reporters || A welcome message and guide to triaging process || 5 ||
||   ||18  || Capture Distro Series When Filing Bugs || UI to allow the user to say "I don't know/Hardy/Intrepid/..." || 3 ||
||   ||11 || Collecting Bug Statistics || Pre-requisite for the triage report and useful to external report builders || ||
||   ||14 || Triage throughput report || See [[https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/launchpad/+spec/qastats-bug-triage|Triaging QoS Report]] || ||
||   ||13 || UI for submitting bugs upstream I || Offering convenience links for sites not running our plugins  || ||
||   ||   || UI for submitting bugs upstream II || Using our Trac and Bugzilla plugins || ||
||   || - || Qualifying bug reporters || Redirect non-qualified people to answers; based on Karma, Ubuntu Members, Referees, etc. || ||
||   ||12 || Better package name UI guidance || If the user selects "don't know" then lead him to an explanation || ||
||   || 1 || Package-specific reporting guidelines || Bonus points for a syntax for including screenshots  || 5-6 ||
||   ||   || Proactive bug imports || Enabling complete syncs from plugin-enabled sites || ||
||   || - || Better Privacy Workflow || Allow special users to submit private bugs, and make it clear what consequences result of marking a public bug private || 7 ||
||   ||   || Specific status change UI || Guide people to our intended workflow; allow people to add a comment and click a button to do a certain status transition || ||
||   || - || Code review UI || Allow code review of patch attachments, feature-parity with Bugzilla || ||
||   ||20 || Explicit Search Filtering and Clean URLs || Let users see and understand what search filters are on, and clean up default search URLs, https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/malone/+bug/28697 || 9 ||
||   || 5 || Duplicate-detection inside launchpad || Scavenge Launchpad bugs with similar contents to the bug displayed and easily mark dupes || 3 ||
||   || 9 || Duplicate-detection across bugtrackers || Scavenge upstream and downstream bugtrackers for possible duplicates of bug report; on-demand and as a second step to bug reporting || ||
||   ||   || Crash reporting || Provide a repository of crashes linked to bug reports, possibly integration with Breakpad? || ||
||   || 8 || Bugtask forwarding relationships || Being able to say "This bug is in Ubuntu" or "This bugtask needs an upstream task" or "This bugtask is waiting for an uptream task" || ||
||   || - || Negated Tags in Searches || Allow searching for bugs with some tags, but without others || 2 ||
||   || - || Duplicate bug watch workflow || When a bugwatch is linked to multiple bugs, notify/warn users (how? when?) || ||
||   ||   || Quick summary/description/tags editing || Allowing people to change these fields without two pageloads. || 5 ||
||   || - || Status/Milestone updates for milestoned bugs || Simple UI to update selected bugs || 20 ||
||   ||   || Fix issues with bug nominations discussed at UDS || [[https://launchpad.net/bugs/253597|Bug 253597]], [[https://launchpad.net/bugs/253600|bug 253600]], [[https://launchpad.net/bugs/253608|bug 253608]], [[https://launchpad.net/bugs/253612|bug 253612]], [[https://launchpad.net/bugs/110195|bug 110195]], [[https://launchpad.net/bugs/253610|bug 253610]] || ||
||   ||19  || Version-tracking of bugs || Being able to specify that a bug is present or was introduced in version X, and later fixed in version Y || ||
||   || - || Customizable search columns || Being able to specify what columns you'd like to see in the bug list ||  ||
||   || - || CSV bug lists || Offering a CSV export containing bug metadata for download through the web ||  ||
||   ||16 || Link HWDB submissions to bug reports || This would be a first step, just linking a submission to a bug report. The developers would still have to download the data and look at it offline. || ||
||   || 4 || Parse and search HWDB info I || Parsing out USB/PCI IDs and BIOS fields, allowing submissions to be searched by hardware component. || ||
||   ||   || Link hardware component to a bug report || This would allow us to be more specific at saying which hardware is affected. || ||
||   || 10 || Make HWDB submissions searchable by kernel version || Extract the kernel version used when the HWDB submission, displaying it, and allow searches to be filtered by it  || ||

  * Choose 15-20 items from the list below in the order you'd like them implemented.
  * Mark '-' for ones you don't care about.
  * estimated effort in story points, an abstract unit

== Other items ==

The following are items not on the original list that are important to Ubuntu QA:

 * A stable and well documented set of APIs - this is key for us to develop tools that work with Launchpad
 * Speed - improving the performance of the web interface will make working with bugs more practical for heavy users and more inviting for new contributors