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["Francis J. Lacoste" <francis.lacoste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

After obsololeting a few blueprints just for karma's sake, I reconsidered the 
usefulness of it all and just marked that Launchpad feature planning and 
documentation was done externally.

I don't see the points of us using blueprints. We already have to maintain the 
information on the wiki and status on the Kanban board. What's the point of 
using blueprints? If we want to expose the status of the feature work, why not 
simply file bugs with a specific tag? We don't need the multiple blueprints 
status/assignee.

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Francis J. Lacoste
francis.lacoste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

On May 19, 2011, Curtis Hovey wrote:
> I recently went on a rampage to link all Ubuntu packages with the name
> "launchpad" in them because users were linking packages to /launchpad
> that have nothing to do with the code in the project.
> 
> While looking at the Launchpad project's front page,
> <https://launchpad.net/launchpad>, I saw the teal squad placed 3 members
> in the top-five contributors list.
> /me high-five's his compatriots
> 
> Then I noticed that the new blueprints. I restrained myself from going
> on another rampage. All the new blueprints are from users who wrongly
> think Lp uses blueprints for development, and that blueprints and that
> blueprints is a place to record ideas. Most the the blueprints were
> created by Launchpad's core developers and are not important or in
> progress as they have claimed for many years. I am sure out stakeholders
> would have had us clubbed with spoons if we really worked on a feature
> for 5 years without finishing it.
> 
> We could just turn off blueprints again, but I believe there hope is
> that a real blueprint will will appear one day. In the mean time, I
> suggest everyone mark the blueprint's Definition as obsolete (or
> Implementation to implemented in the astronomically rare chance once has
> been completed in the last 2 years) so that users do not see a list of
> lies when visiting the blueprints pages.
> 
> Due to the inequities of karma, users who closes many may blueprints may
> earn enough points to place in the top-five contributors list ;)

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