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[Max Bowsher <maxb@xxxxxxx>]

Martin Pool wrote:
> 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.

Renaming a branch is quite disruptive if more than a single person know
about it. There's no easy way to communicate the change.

> 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.

I like that I can currently view my branches sorted / filtered by
status, to get an at a glance overview of what branches I have of
various types.


Max.

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