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Bug reporting and search knows about privacy

The Purple squad recently updated bug reporting and searching to understand the new privacy rules. Some of the changes were requirements to support sharing, others were opportunities we took advantage of.

Improvements to bug reporting and forms

The Purple squad updated the bug reporting UI to make it consistent with the bug pages. We choose to develop one consistent and tested UI rather than update the many kinds of widgets used in bug forms.

  • Project maintainers, drivers, and bug supervisors can report private bugs.
  • Autocomplete works with bug tags
  • The status and importance controls show their definitions.
  • Undecided is the first importance because it is the default importance.

Improvements to bug searching

Advanced bug search was updated after we discovered that recent changes made it possible fix some long standing issues with a few additional lines of code.

  • Anyone can search for Private or Embargoed Security bugs that are shared with them.
  • Autocomplete works with bug tags.

Usability and Accessibility fixes

We discovered that the popups that show bug status, importance and information type did not work with keyboards. It was possible to tab out of every other kind of popup by accident. We made deep fixes to the code so that all launchpad popups work with keyboard.

  • You can use the tab key to move between the items in popups.
  • You cannot accidentally tab out of any popup.

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This entry was posted by Curtis Hovey on Monday, July 16th, 2012 at 5:10 pm and is filed under General. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

5 Responses to “Bug reporting and search knows about privacy”

  1. Richard Says:
    September 29th, 2013 at 12:43 am

    update-manager

    ‘E:Encountered a section with no Package: header, E:Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_precise-updates_main_i18n_Translation-en, E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.’

  2. jitender Says:
    October 26th, 2013 at 12:22 pm

    my ubuntu 12.04 is suffering great problems like:
    1 automatically shutoff
    2 no audio responce through wine
    3. frequently disabling and enabling of wifi
    4.and alot of bugs to

  3. Glen Says:
    March 12th, 2014 at 9:17 am

    Now is good to know I can use the tab key to move between the items in popus

  4. Irena Says:
    March 21st, 2014 at 11:04 am

    Hi, I have Ubuntu 12.04 and I have problem with this:
    ‘E:Encountered a section with no Package: header, E:Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/ba.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_precise-backports_main_i18n_Translation-en, E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.’

    As I see I have problem with som bug!? I can not open folder: ba.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_precise-backports_main_i18n_Translation-en

    I saw that problem because I try to open Ubuntu Software Center an no way to open it. There must be some broken file.

    Please help if you know how I erese bug or something else.
    Thanks.

  5. Angel Bravo Says:
    May 7th, 2014 at 11:13 pm

    Hi,

    I have tried several times to update from Ubuntu Studio 13.04 to 13.10, but it has been always impossible. The problem seems to be errors in processing linux-generic and linux-lowlatency.

    I would like you to tell me how to solve this error and how to update Ubuntu.

    Thank you in advance for your help

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