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• Launchpad Entry: karmic-qa-tools-firefox-lp-plugin

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• Contributors:BrianMurray

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Summary

The Firefox launchpad plugin contains some useful searches for Ubuntu bug reporters particularly the search that will get you a package's bug list. This is something that is not navigatable in Launchpad (you have to hack the url) so would be helpful for reporters to find "their" bug report. How can we get that search if not all the LP ones into the a default install of Ubuntu?

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Rationale

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User stories

Assumptions

Design

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Implementation

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UI Changes

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Code Changes

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Migration

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• data migration, if any
• redirects from old URLs to new ones, if any
• how users will be pointed to the new way of doing things, if necessary.

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Unresolved issues

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BoF agenda and discussion

Agenda

Possible solutions:

• Include searches, or some of them, in the ubufox package
• Have firefox-launchpad-plugin promoted to main and included in a seed

Notes

• It was agreed that the market for the search plugin would be very large
  • subsequently including it in ubufox is unnecessary
• perhaps having ubuntu-bug open the existing bug list for the package
• the bug reporting tools should display the package bug lists or the launchpad
  • duplicate finder
• report a problem could open an apport UI to guide the user to find the right
  • package (not clear that is is application specific)
  • if somebody reports a problem once via firefox they'll always think it is
    • the right place to report problems
• maintain logic of how to find the right package in the distribution and
  • not in launchpad.
• intermediate solution could be to pop up a gtk window that suggests to users
  • to first go to the bug list in launchpad and search for duplicates and only then go to the launchpad bug report page
• _but_ launchpad report a bug page already provides a more or less smart

  • duplicate suggestion list -> its not obvious how this is done technically and if it can be done by simply using the launchpad bug search => LP: #358505

The bug report wizard could have three pages (non-final wording, just outlining the general workflow):

1. "You are about to report a problem against the 'Firefox' package;

• if 'Firefox' is not the package you experience your problem in click 'here' to find the right package; otherwise press "Next"

1a. searching by package name and once done go back to 1. (this step can

• be improved at some point by providing better guidance for finding packages the user doesn't directly interact with - like linux or some lib etc.)

2. "Please describe the problem in one line"

• (once the user did that the duplicate search from LP: #358505 is run and
  • displayed, user can click on it to go to the launchpad bug)

3. "Did you find your bug in the list below? If so, click on the subscribe button

• next to it to track the progress of the fix; otherwise click on the report this problem below." (here the app should open launchpad +filebug page and prefill the title with the summary the user entered above)

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