[Reportbug-maint] Bug#319020: reportbug: Could advertise the PTS for packages which are not very popular

[Raphael Hertzog]

On Tue, 05 Jan 2010, Sandro Tosi wrote:
> Personally, I'm quite dubious it would be helpful to add another step
> to a tool that aims at reporting bugs :)

It might be a non-interactive step... it could be supplementary
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

> 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 ;)

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.

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

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

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog