On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 8:34 AM, Martin Albisetti <[email protected]> wrote: > So, bugtasks. > > I'd like to bring forward a problem that seems to be popping up more and > more as we focus on breaching the gap: bugtasks and context. > > As it stands today, if you're looking at an upstream bug that also has a > bugtask for a package in Ubuntu, and you want to nominate that bug, you > can't. You need to start hacking around to get to the bug from the package > context (if you manage to figure out that's what you need to do). > A quick hack^fix would be to let people click on bugtasks and the context > gets automagically changed. >
Interesting. This might be a naive question, but why do bugs need to have a context at all? > A profound fix could be to collapse targeting to milestones and series into > one column/widget, and offering nomination for those who are > permission-less, and optionally for those permission-ful(?). > Do you think this would help newer users "get" milestones and series? My kneejerk reaction is that this will make them more confusing -- but I'm not really exercising much imagination here. > The "target" is the only bit that is context-specific outside of the bugtask > row (creating this problem). > > Collapsing these two ties into an additional change that slipped 3.0, which > was to *not* automatically create a new bugtask when targeting a series, as > the only case that seems to make sense is backports. > I'd be happy to hash out the UI, I've had a gazillion discussions already > around this, and have a pretty clear idea of what it could look like > Seeing a UI would really help me, since I haven't been a part of those discussions and don't have a clear idea. > > I'd love to argue that collapsing the two "Also affects" into one is part of > this, but it probably isn't (but please do). > It isn't. We should do it. Bridging the gap and all that. jml _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
