On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Graham Binns <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10 January 2011 15:46, Julian Edwards <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Monday 10 January 2011 15:28:03 Robert Collins wrote: >>> Just in the context of saying we should work on the oldest of two >>> bugs, all other things being equal - that implies to me that we >>> probably want to dup things onto the oldest duplicate, so we don't >>> perturbate the queue unnecessarily. >>> >>> What do you think? >> >> It's a good idea, we just need to be careful as I've seen the newest one used >> as it's had more info/comments on it. They're easily lost if you only see >> the >> older one. >> > > +1. I use "dupe to the oldest, unless better data is available later" > as a rule of thumb.
This is my approach, too. So I think Rob's "all other things being equal" is the key phrase. If a newer bug is better, we shouldn't be a slave to the rule. Cheers, deryck -- Deryck Hodge https://launchpad.net/~deryck http://www.devurandom.org/ _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
