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[Max Bowsher <maxb@xxxxxxx>]

On 03/03/11 15:01, Gavin Panella wrote:
> On 2 March 2011 18:29, Curtis Hovey <curtis.hovey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ...
>> I favour addressing the second issue to solve the oops reported by the
>> first issue. I think deleting bugtasks would be great, but it is hard to
>> justify with 250+ critical bugs. I believe the rules are more complex
>> than I stated.
> 
> Preventing under-privileged users from re-targeting bugtasks in
> specific states may require extra work in terms of conditionally
> disabling pickers and forms, or, more simply, letting them try and
> then telling them it can't be done. Either way it's more rules for
> users to learn, or for us to attempt to make clear in the UI.
> 
> Making bugtask targets immutable and allowing bugtask deletion will
> make the UI less noisy and easier to understand, will get rid of the
> need for the null project, will probably let us simplify a lot of
> code... with naive optimism I'd like to think that everything will be
> simpler.

Hrm. There are lots of bugs filed on bzr which are actually bugs filed
on plugins, and for which it is very natural to retarget.

Ditto bugs filed on incorrect Ubuntu packages, for which simply being
able to update the package is a common action.

Forcing users to add + delete would be somewhat unnatural.

In short, please do not make bugtask targets immutable!

Regards,
Max.

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