On 14/12/10 02:07, Martin Pool wrote: > On 14 December 2010 11:03, Max Bowsher <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 13/12/10 17:16, Francis J. Lacoste wrote: >>> Hi everyone, >>> >>> Please browse https://bugs.staging.launchpad.net/launchpad for a preview of >>> the future. >>> >>> Staging got rid of the following sub projects: blueprint, launchpad-answers, >>> launchpad-code, launchpad-foundations, launchpad-registry, launchpad-web, >>> malone, rosetta and soyuz. The projects were deactivated. (The launchpad-* >>> aliases will be added on production.) >>> >>> All bugs, questions and faqs were reassigned to the one and only one >>> launchpad >>> project. >> >> There's probably a good reason for doing all this, and it may even have >> been mentioned on this list at some point, but speaking as someone on >> the periphery of LP development, this feels like a negative step. If I >> wanted to search for whether a bug was already reported, I used to be >> able to immediately focus in on just the code, or soyuz, or malone, etc. >> >> I would suggest that some mention of this reorganization should probably >> occur on the Launchpad Blog before it hits production. > > I think this is a positive step for Launchpad. > * time is wasted at the moment re-sorting bugs > * other projects need ways to group bugs within a single code base; > launchpad shouldn't "cheat" by using multiple projects > * work is underway (iirc) on subscribe-to-tag etc > > I do agree with Max this ought to be advertised before it's done. > There are people (well, at least me) who have things bookmarked, who > are subscribed to bugs in particular apps, etc. A one or two paragraph > blog post would do, and we don't need to enter into bikeshedding.
Including a "The new way to search bugs just within the Soyuz component of Launchpad is ..." (etc.) in the blog post would likely make it a lot less likely to make people think negatively about the change. Max.
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