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[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Matthew Revell wrote on 12/02/10 17:28:
>...
> There are some interesting comments and I recommend you read as much
> as you have time for. Several stuck with me and I'd like us to talk
> about one in particular:
> 
>   Looking at Launchpad, I see a system that loves to throw weird
>   terminology at me, blueprints, drivers, WTF? Especially its hard
>   separation between features and bugs, notion and treatment of
>   "delivery" milestones, approvals and assignments, busts the hell out
>   of me. That may be suitable for your company's business product
>   development and perhaps understood by you and your co-workers after
>   having had a workshop or completing the Launchpad certificate™, but
>   how does that remotely apply to Drupal's flexible and successful
>   usage of issues with various transitioning states...?
>   Implementation: Good progress? Of course.
>...
> I think mpt would be turning in his, erm, office chair were he to read
> someone joking that you need a "Launchpad certificate" to fully
> understand Launchpad.
>...

Heh, not really -- just pointing, once again, to the issue tracker spec
<https://dev.launchpad.net/IssueTracker>, and bugs like "Fix
Committed/Released distinction is inconsistent and unproductive"
<http://launchpad.net/bugs/163694> and "Series, releases, and milestones
overlap confusingly" <http://launchpad.net/bugs/174468>.

There are a few silly terminology errors in Launchpad. (For example, a
bug report can be years old and still labelled "New" -- that one's extra
grating because it's a regression.) But most of the understandability
problems are because *Launchpad* is needlessly complex. And it's
dragging Bazaar down with it.

- -- 
Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/
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