Bug#744781: please remove ubuntu from dashboard or at least provide an option to hide it
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 4:37 AM, Steve Langasek wrote:
> I don't have a particularly strong opinion on whether Ubuntu bugs should be
> displayed in the dashboard by default; but I don't have the impression that
> people who are objecting to it are doing so out of a desire to improve
> Debian, only out of a dislike of Ubuntu. And I think that's a shame.
I have found the bugs reported by Ubuntu users often also apply to
Debian packages and found that the Ubuntu links in the PTS and DDPO
are quite useful. Ubuntu has way more users than Debian and we should
welcome their input in improving Debian.
I feel that staying closed and ignoring other distributions,
especially Debian derivatives, is both against the spirit of the
social contract and a quite bad idea for the Debian distribution and
project. I personally pay attention to bugs reported on my Debian
packages in various distributions (everything from RPM distros to
Debian derivatives) by using the whohas tool.
> If there were other derivatives with similar sources of bug data that could
> be imported into the dashboard, and someone wanted to do the work to
> integrate those sources with the PTS etc., I would be in favor of them also
> being shown by default (though we'd probably want to aggregate all of them
> in the default view to not wind up with an endless set of columns each
> reporting zero bugs for the common case). It's always easier for someone to
> hide the information they decide they don't need, than to discover the
> information they don't know is available.
Based on a survey of the bug links in the Debian derivatives census,
only Ubuntu and UltimediaOS assign bugs to individual packages. The
latter doesn't appear to have an easy way to link to bugs for
individual packages.
https://lists.debian.org/debian-derivatives/2012/09/msg00007.html
One thing that we can link to is patches for many derivatives. Due to
snapshot.d.o hardware outages and disk space issues on alioth that
effort is stalled but I'm hoping to revive it soon.
http://dex.alioth.debian.org/census/patches/
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pabs
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