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 * [[http://people.ubuntu.com/~brian/reports/database/unlinked-bugwatch.html|Unlinked upstream bugs]] - Sometimes people add a link to an upstream bug tracker in the comments of a bug but don't bother creating an upstream task. This is a list of possible targets that can be linked. (Lots of low hanging fruit in this list, but also a bunch of dupes and ones inappropriate to be linked.)  * [[http://qa.ubuntu.com/reports/launchpad-database/unlinked-bugwatch.html|Unlinked upstream bugs]] - Sometimes people add a link to an upstream bug tracker in the comments of a bug but don't bother creating an upstream task. This is a list of possible targets that can be linked. (Lots of low hanging fruit in this list, but also a bunch of dupes and ones inappropriate to be linked.)
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 * [[http://distributions.freedesktop.org/wiki/Packaging/WhyUpstream|Why Upstream?]] - Thoughts from freedesktop.org on why sending maintaining things upstream is a good idea.  * [[http://distributions.freedesktop.org/wiki/Packaging/WhyUpstream|Why Upstream?]] - Thoughts from freedesktop.org on why sending things upstream is a good idea.
 * There are also some cases where you don't need to file a bug upstream, for those cases please have a look at [[WhenNotToForward|When not to Forward a bug upstream]]
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Upstream Bug Resources

  • The Upstream Report - Bug linkage percentages for the top 50 projects in Ubuntu, sorted by open bugs. Please note that this report is still in Beta. Instructions for using the report.

  • Bugs that need forwarding to the Upstream bugtrackers.

  • Unlinked upstream bugs - Sometimes people add a link to an upstream bug tracker in the comments of a bug but don't bother creating an upstream task. This is a list of possible targets that can be linked. (Lots of low hanging fruit in this list, but also a bunch of dupes and ones inappropriate to be linked.)

  • How to set a bug watch

  • Why Upstream? - Thoughts from freedesktop.org on why sending things upstream is a good idea.

  • There are also some cases where you don't need to file a bug upstream, for those cases please have a look at When not to Forward a bug upstream

Upstream bug trackers

Instructions for how to file bugs in specific upstream bug trackers. (Feel free to add more!)

Bugs/Upstream (last edited 2015-03-19 05:03:34 by wxl)