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[Max Bowsher <maxb@xxxxxxx>]

On 14/12/10 02:07, Martin Pool wrote:
> On 14 December 2010 11:03, Max Bowsher <maxb@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 13/12/10 17:16, Francis J. Lacoste wrote:
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> Please browse https://bugs.staging.launchpad.net/launchpad for a preview of
>>> the future.
>>>
>>> Staging got rid of the following sub projects: blueprint, launchpad-answers,
>>> launchpad-code, launchpad-foundations, launchpad-registry, launchpad-web,
>>> malone, rosetta and soyuz. The projects were deactivated. (The launchpad-*
>>> aliases will be added on production.)
>>>
>>> All bugs, questions and faqs were reassigned to the one and only one launchpad
>>> project.
>>
>> There's probably a good reason for doing all this, and it may even have
>> been mentioned on this list at some point, but speaking as someone on
>> the periphery of LP development, this feels like a negative step. If I
>> wanted to search for whether a bug was already reported, I used to be
>> able to immediately focus in on just the code, or soyuz, or malone, etc.
>>
>> I would suggest that some mention of this reorganization should probably
>> occur on the Launchpad Blog before it hits production.
> 
> I think this is a positive step for Launchpad.
>  * time is wasted at the moment re-sorting bugs
>  * other projects need ways to group bugs within a single code base;
> launchpad shouldn't "cheat" by using multiple projects
>  * work is underway (iirc) on subscribe-to-tag etc
> 
> I do agree with Max this ought to be advertised before it's done.
> There are people (well, at least me) who have things bookmarked, who
> are subscribed to bugs in particular apps, etc. A one or two paragraph
> blog post would do, and we don't need to enter into bikeshedding.

Including a "The new way to search bugs just within the Soyuz component
of Launchpad is ..." (etc.) in the blog post would likely make it a lot
less likely to make people think negatively about the change.

Max.

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