Rocket2DMn
February 3rd, 2009, 10:42 PM
This thought crossed my mind this evening and I wanted to write it down before I forgot about it. I think the effort involved in getting this idea implemented is a bit much right now since it was require specialized development, but I was curious to see what people thought of it anyway :)
I thought it would be a cool little addition to the forums to have threads be able to recognize bug links either by parsing Launchpad bug URLs or simply detecting the use of the tags. It could then show at the top of the thread a list of bugs believed to be related to the thread based on what people have mentioned inside the thread. It could then provide a quick link to the LP bug report(s). If you really wanted to make it look nice, a little icon could appear in the forum page by the thread to show that there are bugs related to the thread (say, where it currently shows icons for Attachments, Tags, and Rated threads).
I think such an addition could be beneficial in the Testing and Discussion forum for the current Development release of Ubuntu, and could encourage users to be more active with bugs in other parts of these forums. Forum users are in a unique position to supply quality information to bug reports since this is where the beginners like to come, and their feedback is very important for development. The process could even work both ways and provide links to forum threads/posts on the appropriate Launchpad bug reports (assuming we could get LP devs involved).
Anyway, just a little idea I had that I didn't want to let pass without recording it . Cheers! :popcorn:
I thought it would be a cool little addition to the forums to have threads be able to recognize bug links either by parsing Launchpad bug URLs or simply detecting the use of the tags. It could then show at the top of the thread a list of bugs believed to be related to the thread based on what people have mentioned inside the thread. It could then provide a quick link to the LP bug report(s). If you really wanted to make it look nice, a little icon could appear in the forum page by the thread to show that there are bugs related to the thread (say, where it currently shows icons for Attachments, Tags, and Rated threads).
I think such an addition could be beneficial in the Testing and Discussion forum for the current Development release of Ubuntu, and could encourage users to be more active with bugs in other parts of these forums. Forum users are in a unique position to supply quality information to bug reports since this is where the beginners like to come, and their feedback is very important for development. The process could even work both ways and provide links to forum threads/posts on the appropriate Launchpad bug reports (assuming we could get LP devs involved).
Anyway, just a little idea I had that I didn't want to let pass without recording it . Cheers! :popcorn: