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[Joey Stanford <joey@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't see why not. A backlog milestone would actually have a number
of benefits over a series.

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 2:24 PM, Paul Larson <paul.larson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Could we use a milestone instead?  Series view does not work for a project
> group.
>
> Thanks,
> Paul Larson
>
> On Aug 17, 2011 9:18 PM, "Joey Stanford" <joey@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> series is definitely ok.
>>
>> We should try to standardize that on the James/Joey/Ilias thread for
>> the picture and doc. In fact, let's just call it a recommended
>> standard.
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 8:21 AM, Ilias Biris <ilias.biris@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>> On 16/08/11 23:45, Christian Robottom Reis wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 10:39:55AM -0400, James Westby wrote:
>>>>>   * More importantly nowhere in our process does a backlog currently
>>>>>     appear, so I don't see much value in doing this currently. The
>>>>>     slides presented by kiko mention a backlog, but don't explain how
>>>>> it
>>>>>     will be used, and I don't see a use for one in that presented plan.
>>>>
>>>> I wimped out on trying to solve the backlog problem together with this
>>>> set of changes; sorry. I think the backlog can be handled by an explicit
>>>> "backlog" milestone created for each project, and then rolled up into a
>>>> project group milestone, and would be willing to help somebody
>>>> interested in prototyping that along.
>>>
>>>
>>> Backlog in a milestone or in a series? I quite like what Salveti is
>>> doing in eg in https://blueprints.launchpad.net/linaro-ubuntu/backlog.
>>> It means that one could even try to split a backlog in rough time ranges
>>> such as quarters (so items for the quarter after the next one would be
>>> still possible to place in the right time-basket and have them ready for
>>> review at Connect).
>>>
>>> I am not sure if using a series there would be any LP limitation in the
>>> rolling up you mentioned, but it would be great to have some rolling up
>>> possible, otherwise I would have to dig into individual project backlogs
>>> and that could be inconvenient.
>>>
>>> BR,
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