Closed
Bug 597786
Opened 14 years ago
Closed 14 years ago
Ubuntu Launchpad bugspamming b.m.o. Linking to (Ancient|Dupped|Wrong Product) bugs.
Categories
(bugzilla.mozilla.org :: General, defect)
bugzilla.mozilla.org
General
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RESOLVED
WORKSFORME
People
(Reporter: philip.chee, Unassigned)
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On 19/09/2010 03:48, Reed Loden wrote: > On Sat, 18 Sep 2010 16:41:06 +0800 > Philip Chee <philip.chee@gmail.com> wrote: > >> [not sure about the correct newsgroup. Please redirect as necessary] > > Yeah, not sure what newsgroup would be appropriate for this. Maybe > mozilla.dev.tools or mozilla.dev.mozilla-org? I dunno. > >> The ubuntu launchpad seems to have gone nuts and is randomly updating >> ancient b.m.o. bugs that have been closed ages ago. Can someone politely >> ask the launchpad people to stop bugspamming us? Thanks. > > Not sure why Launchpad just started linking bugs again today, but > it's nothing new, nor is it random. They contacted us a few years ago > about doing this, but due to some problems early on, it's been very > slowly rolled out. Basically, they are linking existing Launchpad bug > reports about Mozilla products with the associated Bugzilla bugs in > bmo. This also allows for two-way communication with users on > Launchpad, as comments are linked between the two bug trackers, which > allows for Ubuntu users to help find and report bugs to us. > > The only real issue I've seen is that in some cases, Launchpad is > linking to a dupe bug instead of the duped-to bug. I will follow-up > with the Launchpad guys to see if this can be resolved so the correct > bug is linked. > > If you know of any other issues where the Launchpad bot isn't working > correctly, let me know, or you can file a bug under mozilla.org :: > Bugzilla: Other b.m.o Issues, and I'll make sure the right people at > Launchpad see it. > > ~reed > On 19/09/2010 04:01, Michael Lefevre wrote: > > I think the issue is, as Philip said, the ancient bugs. > > For example, connecting 3-year-old Firefox 2/3.0 bug reports in > launchpad (bug 44987) to 6-year-old bug reports against the Mozilla > Suite (bmo bug 144612) seems unlikely to help current users or developers. > > I guess there may actually be a few issues where very old that is > useful, but in general it might be an idea not to touch old bugs. I'm > not sure what might be a good cutoff - maybe bugs not changed in a > couple of years? > > Connecting launchpad Firefox bugs to bugs in the Seamonkey product seems > wrong too (although I guess that bug was in a shared component before > the Firefox and Seamonkey UI bugs were completely split up, whenever > that happened...)
Comment 1•14 years ago
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The two-way linking doesn't seem beneficial to b.m.o at all (even without taking into account the fact that the associations are often bogus). With bugspam taken into account I think it's actually detrimental. I'm quite tempted to remove the bot's editbugs/canconfirm bits... Why shouldn't we?
Comment 2•14 years ago
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Comment 1 wasn't intended as a loaded question - I really would like to know what the expected benefits of bi-directional linking are, given the demonstrated costs...
Comment 3•14 years ago
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I think that's a fair question. If I want to receive updates on the Launchpad bug, then I subscribe to that bug.
Comment 4•14 years ago
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Note that the issue with linking to duplicate bugs is being tracked in https://launchpad.net/bugs/642418
Updated•14 years ago
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See Also: → https://launchpad.net/bugs/642418
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Comment 5•14 years ago
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> See Also| |https://launchpad.net/bugs/642418
Oh now we have a mkanat-bot as well?
Comment 6•14 years ago
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It stopped being noisy, so I guess there's no point keeping this open. If it gets annoying again we can just remove its privileges.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 14 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
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Updated•13 years ago
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Component: Bugzilla: Other b.m.o Issues → General
Product: mozilla.org → bugzilla.mozilla.org
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