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[Robert Collins <robertc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 2:05 AM, Terence Simpson <tsimpson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello all,
> In the ubuntu-bots project we currently only use the +text interface
> for LP bug tracker when launchpadlib is not install, and we have
> deprecated the code for using +text. We don't currently have plans to
> permanently remove support though, partly because we don't know
> if/when it will be removed from LP.
> As I know some of the LP devs really do not like the +text interface,
> I was wondering if there is/should be a time-line for deprecating or
> removing support for +text? So this is a good place to start that
> discussion.

We really don't care for or against it. The +text interface is read
200K times a day at the moment across bugs in distributions, so its
about 2% of our total traffic load. We can support it as long as you
need it.

-Rob