A person's Bugs page should show all bugs they are involved with

We already have:
 Bugs filed by the user
 Bugs subscribed to by the user

The last one (Bugs commented on by the user) will be coming soon.

The point is that there should also be a view which shows *all* the bugs (or at least all the non-closed bugs), and that it should be the default.

Many new users of Launchpad will want to just report a bug and will never get any bugs assigned to them. When they go to their personal page they see no bugs by default, which is a little confusing.

You're always automatically subscribed to bugs that
1. you've filed
2. you're assigned to
3. you explicitly subscribed to

And now you can also subscribe to bugs when commenting on them.

I think that making the default view on the 'Bugs' facet be the +subscribedbugs insted of +assignedbugs would be a big win here. And also, it'd be a trivial fix instead of the more elaborate one to have separate columns.

I was wrong, actually. You are not automatically subscribed to bugs that are assigned to you, so this won't help a lot.

Given that, showing subscribed bugs by default would probably be fine.

Is it intentionally that assignment does not subscribe the person?

This does kind of raise the question of whether "subscribed" means "I'm interested in this bug" or "I want to get mail on every change", which is slightly different. I like the prompt below the comment box to subscribe.

Guilherme Salgado wrote:
> We already have:
> Bugs filed by the user
> Bugs subscribed to by the user

I'm sorry, but did these options recently disappear from the user interface? I don't see them either in the "Bugs" page, my home page, or individual bug reports.

On 16-Oct-06, at 11:55 PM, DavorCubranic wrote:

> Guilherme Salgado wrote:
>> We already have:
>> Bugs filed by the user
>> Bugs subscribed to by the user
>
> I'm sorry, but did these options recently disappear from the user
> interface? I don't see them either in the "Bugs" page, my home
> page, or
> individual bug reports.

Sorry, they're a little tricky to find; your reports are available at:

   https://launchpad.net/people/cubranic/+assignedbugs

(The top left portlet.)

On 17/10/2006 10:58 PM, Brad Bollenbach wrote:
> Sorry, they're a little tricky to find; your reports are available at:
Then am I allowed to laugh and say that if they're not bloody obvious
it's useless (that's the basis of this bug in the first place).

> Sorry, they're a little tricky to find; your reports are available at:

I'd say the list of bugs I'm *subscribed* to is more than a little tricky to find. These are the steps:

1. go to my home page (click on my name)
2. click on Bugs (shows my *assigned* bugs)
3. click on *subscribed* link in the left portlet

More confusingly, if I am looking at a product's bugs (e.g., "Bugs in Launchpad", products/launchpad/+bugs), and click on "assigned to me" link in the left mid portlet, there is no way to get to the "subscribed by me" list from this screen.

I think what's confusing is that the portlet that says 'Assigned / Reported / etc' is above the one with the Bugs link you've followed. Since it specifies bugs, I'd expect to look for it below.

On 17-Oct-06, at 9:46 AM, LapTop006 wrote:

> On 17/10/2006 10:58 PM, Brad Bollenbach wrote:
>> Sorry, they're a little tricky to find; your reports are available
>> at:
> Then am I allowed to laugh and say that if they're not bloody obvious
> it's useless (that's the basis of this bug in the first place).

When I said "Sorry", I wasn't being sarcastic. :) You are 100% right;
I'd be frustrated too. There's too much content and it's too hard to
find without knowing the URLs.

mpt and others are currently working on some Launchpad-wide UI
changes that will, hopefully, reduce the info anxiety.

> I think what's confusing is that the portlet that says
> 'Assigned / Reported / etc' is above the one with the Bugs link
> you've followed. Since it specifies bugs, I'd expect to look for
> it below.

No, what was confusing to me is that I needed to go through three links before I got to subscribed bugs, and the first step (going to my profile) gave no indication that this is the only route that will get me to them. Add to it that the second link in the sequence, "Bugs", exists in other places where it doesn't give me the option to see the subscribed bugs, and the functionality is virtually undiscoverable.

I agree. I never even knew the subscribed-to page existed until I searched for it in launchpad bugs!

Another problem is:
if you see your bugs that you are subscribed then there aren't all bugs that you are automatically subscribed because a duplicate.

In another word:
you are subscribed to a bug
this bug is marked duplicate to another one
you are automatically subscribed to the other bug
show your bug's subscribed
---> there aren't the new bugs automatically subscribed by launchpad!

Cimmo:

that specific issue is bug 61429.

As the amount of subscribed bugs far outweighs the amount of assigned bugs, having the former as a default view would be really nice.

Is this bug making any progress?

Oh man this bug is annoying. It really makes me yearn for Bugzilla because that is a killer feature in my mind, to see all bugs I've commented or opened. I've already lost one bug I commented on that has a lot of search results, so it is going to be tough for me to find it again.

I really hope this is implemented soon as the status "In Progress" seems to state (is that new for March 2007? I can't remember if I saw it here before)..

One trick that I used to use to find bugs I had commented on (when I was more active on launchpad) was to subscribe to all the ubuntu bugs newsgroups (http://dir.gmane.org/search.php?match=ubuntu.bugs ) via a newsreader (I used evolution). I then created a filter that showed me all threads that that had my email address within them.

Sitsofe, thanks very much for that hint, that'll have to do for now until I guess Canonical's Launchpad developers get fed up with this annoyance ;) I'll have to start using newsreaders now though, hmph.

Something you developers could easily do (from an interface perspective, I don't mean from a programming perspective!!) is just subscribe us to a bug automatically when we comment, instead of having to subscribe manually after commenting.

** also wanted to mention that whether we get emails should be an option, since I'd personally prefer just to check a bug's progress on this site rather than my inbox, I apologize sorry for replying twice in a row

eppy 1: there is an option box to subscribe on the bug below the comment text box; that option avoids the need of subscribing afterwards.

I'm sorry to disappoint you, eppy, but we don't yet have a way of serching for
bugs a person commented on and this bug is not about that, even though it
appears to be.

To make it clear, this bug is about merging all different buglistings we have
for a given person in that person's +bugs page, while keeping the same search
functionality.

The bug which deals with searching the bugs a person commented on is bug 5937.
Once that bug is fixed, it'll be trivial to include the bugs a person
commented on that person's +bugs page.

Guilherme:

"The bug which deals with searching the bugs a person commented on is bug 5937."

If that's the case why did Bug #3385 get duped on this one?

On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 07:24:52PM -0000, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote:
>
> If that's the case why did Bug #3385 get duped on this one?
>

I have no idea, but I just fixed that.