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[Jonathan Lange <jml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 3:56 AM, Henning Eggers
<henning.eggers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Am 16.02.2010 16:01, Jonathan Lange schrieb:
>> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On Feb 15, 2010, at 12:59 PM, Jonathan Lange wrote:
>>>
>>>> What's next? What do you think are the terms we need to start thinking about?
>>> No thinking necessary.  We've long talked about, and I think there's general agreement for, changing "project" to "project group" and "product" to "project".
>>>
>>
>> I heartily support that, and will thank the person who makes the change.
>
> This is such a long standing issue that we have to keep explaining to
> new developers. I believe it has just not been tackled because of the
> vastness of the task. Breaking it down into smaller chunks is the
> obvious solution to get things going in this matter.
>
> As a logical consequence I just filed 14 new bugs for all the necessary
> steps and collected them here:
> https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/launchpad-registry/+spec/project-groups
>

Thanks! It's been exciting watching these commits come through over
the last few days -- we are strong enough to liberate ourselves from
the shackles of our technical debt.

jml