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Distributed bug tracking

Posted May 15, 2008 17:41 UTC (Thu) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501)
In reply to: Distributed bug tracking by markshuttle
Parent article: Distributed bug tracking

How common is the language between different bug trackers?

If the status on Debian changes from "critical" to "grave", what does it mean with 
Ubuntu?

If a bug is moved from libtoolchain0.3-1 to libtoolchain-dev on Debian, what does it 
mean for Fedora?

What about the various reasons to close a bug? "duplicate", "fixed" and "invalid" are 
different things.

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Distributed bug tracking

Posted May 15, 2008 18:31 UTC (Thu) by markshuttle (subscriber, #22379) [Link]


The bug trackers are all in different languages, and we have been working with contractors who
are upstream on them to have a reasonably standardised network service API to talk to them.
Other folks will of course be able to use that too, which is great.

In Launchpad, the status in each place a bug is tracked is separate. So Debian can consider a
bug "medium" while Ubuntu can consider it "important". We try to map all the different kinds
of status in different bug trackers to something sensible in Launchpad.