On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 10:58 -0400, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote: > I think Jeremy's fear about misattribution of bugs is a valid one. > > I have a dream, though. > > I have a dream of a desktop bugzilla client in Fedora. When you find a > bug, you fire up the prominently-placed client. The client presents you > with package names, and you select which package the bug was in. The > client will be smart enough to reconcile any questions about "which repo > this package came from". > > Is this a crazy dream? Maybe. Maybe not. But it'd certainly require a > visionary QA person to make it happen. Right, Will? Yes! I have this same dream! I really REALLY want to see tighter integration between Fedora and our bug reporting/tracking stuff. I want: 1) A nice client (maybe built from bug-buddy) for people to quickly and easily report bugs *without a bugzilla account*. This client would gather pertinent system info (Fedora or Alternatives package? Weirdo kernel?) and include it in the bug report. 2) Attached to bugzilla: a central, scoreboard-style web page with up-to-the-minute info on hot issues, bug tracking, release notes, etc. Basically, a site that will help answer the question: "WTF just happened?". And I want links to this in our Firefox package, on the desktop, etc. Even better, I want these two things to be tied together: I want the bug client to pull info about current hot issues, the most frequently-reported bugs, etc. and present a list to the user. It will ask: "Are any of these your bug?" If the user finds their bug in that list, they click yes. We increment a 'vote' counter for that bug. Goodbye duplicate bug reports! Hello semi-automatic bug triage! Does this sound useful? Are Greg and I just crazy? Can we make this stuff happen? -w
