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[Jonathan Lange <jml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 5:59 AM, Robert Collins
<robertc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This isn't deeply thought out, but I wonder if we can get rid of
> 'product', 'distro' and 'distrosourcepackage' bugtasks (and thus
> conjoined masters). If this mail gets a reasonable level of interest,
> I will LEP this up and socialise it more widely.
>

Sounds like a good idea to me.

There's already some confusion in the UI about bugtasks that are
assigned to the current development focus of a distro. It would be
nice if this change alleviated some of that.

Ubuntu would be the biggest hit by this change, so it's worth talking
directly to some key people there. I think Kate Stewart (the RM) and
key people in QA (e.g. Brian Murray, Jeremy Foshee) would be a good
start.

I would note that just because we have a link to a ProductSeries
doesn't mean we need to display "foo/trunk" in the bug task. In fact,
that would seem like a bad idea.

jml