Launchpad Bug field in Trac

[Felipe Contreras]

2009/1/30 Richard Laager <rlaager at wiktel.com>:
> On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 15:08 -0500, John Bailey wrote:
>> I see we now have a "Launchpad Bug" field on our tickets.  I have a few
>> questions about this.
>>
>>  * Who added this?
>
> Umm, me. Duh! ;)
>
>>  * Why are we giving special treatment to Ubuntu, but ignoring
>>    Debian, RedHat, Novell, Mandriva, etc.?
>
> Launchpad != Ubuntu
>
> Launchpad's bug tracker includes functionality to link bugs to multiple
> places. For a not-so-useful example:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/pidgin/+bug/182759
>
> I noticed RedHat's bugzilla recently grew this at some point. That said,
> nobody else has released a Trac plugin, so at the moment, our choices
> are to install none or 100% of the existing plugins of this type.

Launchpad != Ubuntu, but almost.

Anyway, it would be nice to have a link to external bugzillas as well,
but for now I don't see anything wrong with Launchpad support.

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Felipe Contreras