On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 10:31:24PM +1300, Matthew Thomas wrote: > >Launchpad sure does give you enough rope to ... choose an alternative > >workflow. Is there nothing that can be done to make the correct > >workflow more obvious? > >... > > One way would be to explain the statuses more inside Launchpad itself. > For example, Kit Blake's idea of giving each status a tooltip in the > menu. That would involve (I think) changing the status dropdown to a set of radiobuttons, which is similar to what Bugzilla offers, and which gives end-users better guidance at the expense of some flexibility (unless we keep the drop-down). It might make it harder to fix mistakes, though -- if you only offer the reasonable options, how do you change a bug that is marked Fix Committed but which is really Incomplete? -- Christian Robottom Reis | http://async.com.br/~kiko/ | [+55 16] 3376 0125
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