Automatically notify people of bug reports they're qualified to confirm
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Launchpad itself |
Triaged
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Many bug reports are unconfirmed for a long time, and it seemes to be a hard job to get people to test the bugs. So it would be a nice thing to make it a little bit more automatically. Ubuntu is known as very userfriendly and should be/ is also very contributorfrie
But why don't get the otherway round? Bring the bugreports to the user and let them test it.
What I imagine is a database of userprofiles from users who are willing to contribute but hasn't the skills or think they don't have it (like me). In the Userprofile contains an e-mail adress, and the version of the distribution he uses, and a list of programmes he often or likely use. With this launchpad could send the new unconfirmed bugreports to the users who uses the programm and could ask if they can confirm it or not.
A half-automatic option is also possible, where the reports could be send by moderators to users they maybe could confirm the bug. The moderators also could make a decision if the bug is easy enough to test or not.
One way to do this would be to make it possible for, and encourage, people to subscribe to only the Unconfirmed bug reports for a particular project or package. (Perhaps this would be a special case of subscribing to search results.)