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[Robert Collins <robert.collins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Martin Pool <mbp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> There are other simplifications that I think would probably improve
> the user model more though, like unifying fixreleased and
> fixcommitted, or confirmed and triaged, or various other old bugs.
> One reason I think they would have a higher payoff is that everybody
> dealing with bugs hits them, whereas using multiple tasks is a more
> advanced use.

I have a few thoughts here. Firstly I hesitate to prioritise things
purely on user impact - sometimes the balance between effort and
rewards is linked, sometimes its not :).

In this specific case, we'd save ~6% of the table row size, which
would help significantly on table scans, which would help performance
- and everyone feels that.

Beyond that though, *everyong* runs into tasks on multiple series
except for the /most/ simple projects. I agree that multiple tasks on
one bug is rarer (
  89512 | many
 651228 | one
) but having multiple series on a project is much more common: every
user of Launchpad for Ubuntu bug management runs into this case; and
its this case that we would be simplifying.
Interestingly, many products only have one series:
  3637 | many
 18698 | one

but if we assess how many bugs are in each project and then group by
type we get this:
 210391 | many
  97824 | one

So - I think the overwhelmingly common experience on Launchpad is
dealing with projects that have multiple series that their bugs fall
into.

-Rob