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[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Jeroen Vermeulen wrote on 07/09/10 03:35:
>
> This may be a silly idea.  It came from googling bugs by number, which
> sometimes takes one to unexpected pages.
>
> We can link bugs to branches and vice versa.  Doesn't that mean that
> users would expect to see the bug's Code tab refer to the branch, and
> the Bugs tab for the branch refer to the bug?
>
> Similar for blueprints and bugs, and probably other cases where we link
> our respective applications' quintessential items.
>...

The approach I took when designing the tabs was this: An object should
have its own set of tabs if *most* of the tabs could apply to it.

For example, a distribution source package has its own tabs, because
while it doesn't have Answers, it does have an Overview, Code, Bugs,
Blueprints, and Translations.

But a distribution milestone does not have its own tabs, because while
it could have an Overview and Bugs, it would not have anything else of
its own.

Bug reports fall into the latter category. If the tabs for a bug report
page were specific to the bug report, "Code", "Bugs", and "Blueprints"
would be the only tabs that could ever do anything -- and most of the
time (when there are no linked branches or blueprints), "Code" and
"Blueprints" would both take you to empty pages.

Anyway, the bug report page itself *already* lists all the branches and
blueprints that the report is linked to, and those lists are almost
always very short, so there wouldn't be much point in putting them on
separate pages. (If you were thinking that those links would go directly
to the relevant branch or blueprint, remember that there can be more
than one of each for a given bug report.)

Having said all that, the navigation tabs are unfortunately broken in
Launchpad currently, in that there is no reliable way of telling where
they will take you. For example, on a build page
<https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/socnetv/0.81-1ubuntu2/+build/1883317>,
the "Ubuntu" header implies that the tabs are for the distribution, but
they are for neither the distribution *nor* the build. This was not a
problem in Launchpad 2.0.

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