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[Martin Pool <mbp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

2009/9/14 Jonathan Lange <jml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 6:59 AM, Tim Penhey <tim.penhey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:08:05 Martin Pool wrote:
>>> On the other hand the overall branch state (as opposed to the mp
>>> state) is generally boring and could probably be removed - but it may
>>> be worth checking how many people use it to verify that.  I think the
>>> code team plan to drop it entirely.
>>
>> We seriously looked into dropping it completely, but there was a reasonable
>> number of people that do use the status.  Primarily for experimental branches,
>> but none the less, people do use it.
>
> I still think we can get the same effect through branch naming, and
> should ditch explicit branch status.

Or possibly a very easily editable branch tags field.

So the upshot for the bugs page seems to be: it should show the mp if
any, status and votes, and keep the other branch fields as they are.


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Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>