#319020 reportbug: Could advertise the PTS for packages which are not very popular

Package:
reportbug
Source:
reportbug
Submitter:
Raphael Hertzog
Date:
2011-08-28 14:39:06 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
Blocked By:
Bug Title
639527

  2

 Use PTS SOAP API

normal stable testing unstable almost 15 years ago

#319020#5
Date:
2005-07-19 09:29:56 UTC
From:
To:
As member of the Debian QA Group I try to think of ways to improve the
overall quality of Debian. One way is to have more contributors for each
package... and to get external people involved I encourage them to
subscribe to the PTS for the packages that they care about.

People submitting bug reports are usually people caring about a package so
I think we should try to catch their attention and to propose them to
subscribe to the PTS of the package on which they're submitting a bug
report.

To avoid asking for contributors on packages which do not need help,
reportbug could use the stats from the following file:
http://master.debian.org/~hertzog/pts/count.txt

Source packages not listed there have no PTS subscribers. The figures
indicates how many people are subscribed to the PTS of each package.
If the number is below 4, then the package needs more external
contributors and reportbug should try to catch the attention of someone
submitting a bug on the indicated package.

Subscribing to the PTS can be done by mailing pts@qa.debian.org
with "subscribe <srcpkg>" in the body. The user will then receive a
confirmation mail. You could also point him to
http://packages.qa.debian.org/<srcpkg>
#319020#10
Date:
2007-07-16 13:14:02 UTC
From:
To:
The canonical URL is now:
http://packages.qa.debian.org/data/pts-subscription-count.txt

You haven't commented yet on the idea. Do you think it's completely
insane?

Cheers,
#319020#15
Date:
2010-01-05 21:57:31 UTC
From:
To:
Hello Raphael,
thanks for your report.

Personally, I'm quite dubious it would be helpful to add another step
to a tool that aims at reporting bugs :)

Also, the heuristic of "<4 needs new contributors, >=4 the package is
well covered" is a bit weak: for example, reportbug has 4
subscriptions, but...well, I don't receive that much help ;)

Did your mind change during this time, or do you still believe this is
an interesting feature?

Cheers,
#319020#20
Date:
2010-01-06 11:08:20 UTC
From:
To:
information on the last screen displayed that confirms that the bug has
been sent.

BTW, the URL with the stats is now on another URL:
http://packages.qa.debian.org/data/pts-subscription-count.txt

It's an heuristic, it's not supposed to be fail-proof. You can even keep
the messages for all package, I don't know many people who would be
annoyed because supplementary people are watching/dealing with bugs.

I still think it's an interesting feature if done properly. :-)

Cheers,