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[Martin Pool <mbp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 4 June 2010 02:34, Bryce Harrington <bryce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 08:37:39AM -0000, Abel Deuring wrote:
>> I think the term "upstream" does not cover all situations where more
>> than one bugtask makes sense. Other scenarios are a bug that affects a
>> client and a server, or one that affects a library (maintained as a
>> separate project) and an application that uses the library.
>
> Ah, that's a good point.  What would you suggest as a more complete
> wording?

I would say "Add task for project" or "Add project task" or something
like that.

mpt expressed reluctance in another bug to exposing the internal term
"task" to users unnecessarily.  However this is a concept people need
to know about for intermediate-advanced use of Launchpad: having them
just call it "a row in that table at the top of the bugs" isn't really
helping anyone.

To me the key concepts here are:

 * you're going to add a new dimension to the bug
 * it's about a project, rather than a distro package or series
 * to track some work that needs to be done there

"Affects" is a bad word because it's overloaded by "affects me too":
we see people getting confused by saying that a bug in gcc affects
mysql, which is literally true but doesn't mean it needs a task
against mysql.

-- 
Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>

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