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[Tim Penhey <tim@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:56:30 Barry Warsaw wrote:
> On Nov 2, 2009, at 8:15 PM, Ian Clatworthy wrote:
> > My personal opinion is that Launchpad the product is a project, not a
> > project group. For large projects, we need a level of granularity
> > below
> > the 'project' called 'components' say (ala JIRA). Tags are the closest
> > thing we have right now and, while useful, they're not as helpful
> > w.r.t.
> > partitioning.
> 
> This feels more right than anything I've heard so far, and it would
> also be more scalable in the sense that projects of many different
> sizes (not just "large") would be able to utilize such components.
> It's a fairly common organizational tool in many bug trackers.
> 
> -Barry

Yeah, components have come up a number of times, but nothing has ever been 
done about them.  I think due to lack of resources and other priorities rather 
than a general dislike.

Tim