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[Max Bowsher <maxb@xxxxxxx>]

On 14/12/10 15:53, Francis J. Lacoste wrote:
> 
> On December 13, 2010, Max Bowsher wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> In a way, the fact that all components are part of the same project should 
> help with finding duplicate. Before if you file a bug against the wrong 
> project, you wouldn't find the existing bug whereas now it won't be a problem.
> 
> There is no real way anymore to search only the Soyuz component, since there 
> isn't such a thing as a 'Soyuz' component. It's really an aggregation of 
> multiple components (publisher, buildd-manager, plus a bunch of web features.) 
> There is the 'lp-soyuz' tag, but these are temporary as they only reflect an 
> arbitrary aggregation of components.

The lumping together of all bugs across separate and generally fairly
well definable major areas of Launchpad (i.e. Bugs, Code, Soyuz, etc.)
feels negative to me.

I'd imagine I'm not the only one.

Therefore, I think it's very important the rationale for doing so is
clearly communicated.

Max.

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