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[Curtis Hovey <curtis.hovey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 18:34 -0300, Martin Albisetti wrote:
> So, bugtasks.
> 
> I'd like to bring forward a problem that seems to be popping up more and more 
> as we focus on breaching the gap: bugtasks and context.
> 
> As it stands today, if you're looking at an upstream bug that also has a 
> bugtask for a package in Ubuntu, and you want to nominate that bug, you can't. 
> You need to start hacking around to get to the bug from the package context (if 
> you manage to figure out that's what you need to do).
> A quick hack^fix would be to let people click on bugtasks and the context gets 
> automagically changed.
> 
> A profound fix could be to collapse targeting to milestones and series into one 
> column/widget, and offering nomination for those who are permission-less, and 
> optionally for those permission-ful(?).
> The "target" is the only bit that is context-specific outside of the bugtask 
> row (creating this problem).
> Collapsing these two ties into an additional change that slipped 3.0, which was 
> to *not* automatically create a new bugtask when targeting a series, as the 
> only case that seems to make sense is backports.
> I'd be happy to hash out the UI, I've had a gazillion discussions already 
> around this, and have a pretty clear idea of what it could look like
> 
> 
> I'd love to argue that collapsing the two "Also affects" into one is part of 
> this, but it probably isn't (but please do).

There is also an argument from the distro side that that nominate/also
affects do not work. The workers are over whelmed by the number of poor
nominations and have talked to us about removing it. This is too much
like voting--we all know that democracy and software do not mix.

As a non-privileged Ubuntu user, they only reason I think I could
justify nominating a bug is if I have a patch or am committing to
provide a patch. 


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