There should be a means by which bugtrackers whose bugs have been migrated to launchpad can be identified.

Bug #138949 reported by Graham Binns
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Launchpad itself
Won't Fix
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

It's likely that, at some point, there will be several bug trackers whose bugs have been migrated entirely to Launchpad. There should be a means to identify these so that the checkwatches cronscript can automatically discard any bug watches against them.

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Gavin Panella (allenap) wrote :

There is another reason for something like this: https://edge.launchpad.net/bugs/bugtrackers/auto-acpi.sourceforge.net

It's not really a bug tracker, but was found and auto-created by our bug watch discovery stuff because it uses URLs that match the pattern of Mantis. It would be useful to just say: don't check this. Leave it there so that it doesn't get auto-created again, but in a disabled state.

So a simple "Enabled" checkbox might be enough, with a suggestion to the user that the bug tracker description should be updated to say why. Or, if we want to capture the reason, a radio group:

 (*) Enabled.
 ( ) Disabled: Project has migrated bug tracking to Launchpad Bugs.
 ( ) Disabled: The remote site is not a bug tracker.
 ( ) Disabled: By request of the remote site.
 ( ) Disabled: Other reason.

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Gavin Panella (allenap) wrote :

Also, if "Disabled: The remote site is not a bug tracker." or "Disabled: By request of the remote site" were selected, we could/should hide the bug watches on bug pages.

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Graham Binns (gmb) wrote :

I think we're better off just implementing disablement for bug trackers (bug 225829) since it does the same job.

Changed in malone:
status: New → Won't Fix
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