Package bug with low heat has 4 flames on its bug page

Bug #532099 reported by Deryck Hodge
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Launchpad itself
Fix Released
High
Deryck Hodge

Bug Description

This will make sense if you look at bug 505433. The bug has heat 14 and 4 flames, but it's because it is the only bug for the package. So this makes sense on one hand, but if you click through from a distribution bugs page where it has no flames, it's not obvious why there are suddenly all the flames.

bdmurray, james_w, and I discussed this on IRC and some options came to mind:

 * Always use the distribution as max_bug_heat source for the bug page
 * Always use the package as the max_bug_heat source, even in distro bugs listings
 * Use some scale between the distro flames and the package's bug list

The latter is an interesting idea, but doesn't solve the issue of the distro bugs list having one set of flames and the bug page another.

I lean on the side of the first option, but I'm open to discussion of these ideas and proposal of others.

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Deryck Hodge (deryck) wrote :

mpt pointed out another manifestation of this bug. See the tag list:

https://edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.tag=metadata

Several bugs at the bottom look like the same bug, but one has four flames. It is the only bug in it's package again.

So apparently we do use the package context in a list of Ubuntu bugs. I'm not sure that's right. If we need to file a new bug about that, I can.

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Eleanor Berger (intellectronica) wrote :

I also think the first option you listed is the best one.

We do indeed use the package's max heat in Ubuntu listings, but we consider that a bug and have a fix coming up. See bug #531443.

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Deryck Hodge (deryck) wrote :

That's right; I remember that now. :-) I didn't connect this part of the issue with that known problem.

Thanks for the follow up about this, Tom.

Deryck Hodge (deryck)
Changed in malone:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → High
tags: added: story-bug-heat
Deryck Hodge (deryck)
Changed in malone:
status: Triaged → In Progress
assignee: nobody → Deryck Hodge (deryck)
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Ursula Junque (ursinha) wrote : Bug fixed by a commit
Changed in malone:
milestone: none → 10.03
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
tags: added: qa-needstesting
Deryck Hodge (deryck)
tags: added: qa-ok
removed: qa-needstesting
Deryck Hodge (deryck)
Changed in malone:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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