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[Matthew Revell <matthew.revell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 31 August 2011 22:55, xaav <xaav@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >  * One issue tracker to rule them all: we're going to merge the bug
>> > and blueprint trackers, as we had planned, and also ask what should
>> > happen to Answers. Should it be another face to our combined issue
>> > tracker or do we even need an Answers tracker?
>> askubuntu.com seems to be working out pretty well.  If Answers were
>> dropped, askubuntu.com would seem to be a suitable replacement, at least
>> for Ubuntu.
>
> A word of warning: If you do this you'll just create something like Bug
> #240067. DO NOT ASSUME ALL PROJECTS ARE UBUNTU RELATED. This has been
> Canonical's biggest failure in launchpad, and it is sad to see that history
> truly does repeat itself. You will be scaring projects away if you use
> resources not in launchpad.

I think it's healthy for any software project to review its scope from
time to time and to justify the existence of every part of that
project. This is no more than that: a call to decide what's best for
the future of the Answers tracker. With a little constructive
discussion and some research I think we'll be able to  take a decision
that works well for Launchpad and the people who use it.

> On another note, good luck implementing ideas! I really hope this plan
> doesn't get tossed aside like some other ones have. I'll guess I'll find
> this out a couple of years from now.

Thanks for the good luck wishes :) We're serious about making
Launchpad more usable and continuing to make it relevant to the free
software world at large.


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Matthew Revell
Launchpad Product Manager
Canonical

https://launchpad.net/~matthew.revell