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[Bryce Harrington <bryce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 07:21:17AM -0500, Deryck Hodge wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 9:31 PM, Curtis Hovey
> <curtis.hovey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2010-09-21 at 14:18 +1200, Robert Collins wrote:
> >> So, when mentoring lookups show up in performance profiles, what are
> >> we meant to be doing?
> >>
> >> If its not used, can we just remove it?
> >
> > Remove it.
> >
> 
> +1.
> 
> We removed the front end to the feature to see if anyone noticed or
> wanted it back.  No one has missed it.  The code should be cleaned out
> now, too.

>From a lp user perspective I'd agree it seems not to have been a useful
feature.  It might be worth looking again at whatever problem the
feature was originally designed to solve, in case it's still a problem.

My suspicion is that people now use tags as a more flexible solution for
marking bugs for others to work on.  C.f. papercuts project as an
example.

Bryce