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[Robert Collins <robert.collins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 11:56 PM, Jonathan Lange <jml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 10:57 PM, Bryce Harrington <bryce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
> ...
>> Some package maintainers may dislike the proposed change due to being
>> accustomed to having bugs auto-carried over.  It might be worthwhile
>> considering adding UI or tools to help address these needs.
>>
>
> Good point. Would a command line tool, perhaps added as a part of
> ubuntu-dev-tools, be sufficient?

We could also (fairly easily) add a bug updating component to the
new-distroseries backend script we have (if it had some appropriate
metadata to run off of).

>> Presently in Ubuntu series nominations are often used for marking
>> "bugs with a fix worth backporting", and some package maintainers may
>> dislike the proposed change since this would be harder.  But use of
>> milestones should address this need, I think.
>>
>
> Would we have to do something to help them adjust to using milestones?
> (Could be as simple as an announcement to ubuntu-dev)

Also, you could still use nominations - for instance:
 - a bug with an old series task set to 'wont fix' is one that isn't
worth backporting (explicit -no-)
 - a bug with an old series task set to triaged, importance critical?
is worth backporting (explicit -yes-)
 - a bug with other old series task has not had a decision made yet.

-Rob