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[Jonathan Lange <jml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Curtis Hovey
<curtis.hovey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 10:47 +0000, Jonathan Lange wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Monty Taylor from Drizzle did a talk about Launchpad at linux.conf.au
>> last week. Here are the notes I made about his wishes for Launchpad.
>>
>> Actually, some of the notes might be notes that I made about my wishes
>> for Launchpad. Anyway, they are shared here for your amusement and
>> enlightenment.
> ...
>> = Registry =
>>
>>  * Milestones / series hard to use
>
> As you know, series and milestones are improved by me in my spare time,
> driven by my personal need. Monty is has not reported, commented on, or
> subscribed to any of the bugs about this issue.
>

Hey Curtis,

The work you've done on improving series & milestones has been
excellent. I've certainly noticed them being easier to use.

Please don't feel uncharitably toward Monty. I made a quick note based
on an off-hand comment and forwarded them to the list so I could
delete an icon from my desktop.

> I image his concern is:
>
>        174468  Series, releases, and milestones overlap confusingly
>        https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/launchpad-registry/+bug/174468
>
>        418529  Create a milestone is more common than register a series
>        https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/launchpad-registry/+bug/418529
>

I won't speak for Monty, but from talking to other users, I get the
impression that they simply aren't clear what series in particular are
modeling. A release makes sense, a milestone makes sense, but most
people don't understand what series "gets" them.

Maybe it's worth looking at the docs we already have for this.

> There is also the issue that we are not showing the bug/blueprint
> summaries on series pages, making it very difficult to see milestone
> capacity and team velocity--I do not know how to fix this other than
> send an entire release moving that into an ajax request
>

It's a performance issue?

jml