Broken MIR bug list URL

[nadzyah]

The MIR documentation page at https://documentation.ubuntu.com/project/MIR/mir-roles-and-steps/#file-a-bug-report references the MIR bug list using the following text:

Subscribe ubuntu-mir to the bug report. Keep it in state “NEW” and do not assign it to anyone: this ensures that it appears in the MIR bug list.

However, the link in the documentation contains HTML-encoded ampersands (&), and Launchpad does not decode these correctly when the link is clicked directly from the documentation site. As a result, the filter parameters are ignored and Launchpad displays all Ubuntu bugs (currently ~143,879), rather than the intended filtered MIR bug list.

Example of the URL as it appears in the documentation:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/?field.searchtext=&orderby=-date_last_updated&field.status%3Alist=NEW&assignee_option=none&field.assignee=&field.subscriber=ubuntu-mir

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/?field.searchtext=&orderby=-date_last_updated&field.status%3Alist=NEW&assignee_option=none&field.assignee=&field.subscriber=ubuntu-mir

When the same URL is used without HTML-encoded ampersands, the filters work as expected.

I reproduced this issue in Firefox 145.0, including in incognito mode. The problem only occurs when following the link directly from the MIR documentation.

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Reported from: https://documentation.ubuntu.com/project/MIR/mir-roles-and-steps/

[MylesJP]

I asked the Documentation folks and apparently this is a common issue with ampersands in links. The only workaround is to use <a> tags. I'll put a PR up.