On 13 December 2011 22:53, Brad Crittenden <brad.critten...@canonical.com> wrote:
> Linaro has escalated an issue which stems from the fact a milestone must be > unique within a project, which prevents them from having a single milestone > view across different product series. For instance if they want to release a > version of GCC 3 and GCC 4 they are prohibited by database constraint from > creating the same milestone in both of those series. > > The initial plan for solving the problem was to relax the database constraint > and allow reuse of milestones within a project. That change would have a lot > of implications and would satisfy Linaro but potentially confuse the rest of > our users. > > An alternative solution would be to keep the milestone constraints as they > are but to add milestone tags, which would behave similarly to the way bug > tags work. All milestones that need to be tracked together would be given > the same tag. As discussed in our call, I'm happy with the milestone tags idea. I think there's a slim risk it could further complicate our already somewhat complex project management; it's worth that risk, though. > * Milestones can have zero or more tags, just like bug tags. > > * A new project group page <projectgroup>/+tag/<tag> will be produced to show > all items associated with the milestones tagged with <tag>. It will look > very similar to <projectgroup>+milestone/<milestone> but the milestones will > be filtered by the tag. (See attached mockup, page 1.) > > * The project group overview page will have a new section titled "Milestones" > and in it will be a text entry box with a search button. Use of the search > will take the user to the +tag page described above. The entry box will > autocomplete known tags. (See attached mockup, page 2.) > I'd like Huw to look at the mock-ups and Dan to look at the help pop-up text. -- Matthew Revell Launchpad Product Manager Canonical https://launchpad.net/~matthew.revell _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : launchpad-dev@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
