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[Tim Penhey <tim.penhey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:54:34 Jonathan Lange wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 2:25 AM, Tom Berger <tom.berger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Not quite. For users to be able to effectively file bugs without
> > creating a lot more work triaging, they need to be able to tell us
> > which component of Launchpad the bug is in. We then take this
> > information and feed it to the team responsible for that component for
> > triaging and resolution. If we scrapped sub-projects we'd need another
> > way of capturing that information, so unless we have a better way of
> > doing that I'm not sure I agree that it's desirable to get rid of
> > sub-projects.
> 
> Oh right, components.
> 
> I agree that we need some way of modelling that. I think that our
> current projects are a poor model of the actual components of
> Launchpad. AFAICT, things like the librarian, the codehosting SSH
> server and the soyuz publishing service are all separate components,
> but none of them have their own LP project. Instead, they are mixed in
> with other components.
> 
> My hunch is that people are already using tags in an almost rigorous
> way to model this.

Yes we do, but I think we should still look to add components at some stage.

Tim