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[Guilherme Salgado <guilherme.salgado@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 26/01/12 09:03, Matthew Revell wrote:
> On 20 January 2012 20:18, Guilherme Salgado
> <guilherme.salgado@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> In Linaro we've been discussing a new report that would show the upcoming
>> work assigned to a given team, aggregating work items from blueprints and
>> bugs (see the attached mockup for an example; just ignore the roadmap cards
>> line at the top), but for that we do need to have work items as first class
>> objects, as well as the history of changes made to them.
> 
> Wow, this looks great. Thanks for working on this.
> 
> So, [FOREIGN] is a blueprint that is assigned to another team but has
> some work items that are assigned to this team? And [FUTURE] is a
> blueprint that is targeted to a future release/milestone but has work
> items that are targeted to this one. Is that right?

That's right.

>> We believe doing it in Launchpad instead of launchpad-work-items-tracker[2]
>> has many benefits (to ourselves and to other Launchpad users, who might find
>> that kind of report useful), but just having work items as first class
>> objects would make it possible to implement many other things (user input
>> validation when creating/modifying them, ability to generate reports and see
>> the progress of a blueprint, etc), so we'd like to know if this is something
>> that would be accepted into Launchpad.
> 
> Yes, absolutely. This is something we would have wanted to do
> ourselves, had it not been for our temporary change in focus. Let's
> have a call early next week to chat about how this might look and
> work. I'll send an invite.

Cool, really glad to hear that!  Can you invite Mattias (CCed) too, as
he's going to be working with me on this.

> The Product team (user research, text/docs, UI and QA) would be at your service.

Superb! :)

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Guilherme Salgado <https://launchpad.net/~salgado>

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