On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 10:57 PM, Bryce Harrington <[email protected]> wrote: > ... > Some package maintainers may dislike the proposed change due to being > accustomed to having bugs auto-carried over. It might be worthwhile > considering adding UI or tools to help address these needs. >
Good point. Would a command line tool, perhaps added as a part of ubuntu-dev-tools, be sufficient? ... > Presently in Ubuntu series nominations are often used for marking > "bugs with a fix worth backporting", and some package maintainers may > dislike the proposed change since this would be harder. But use of > milestones should address this need, I think. > Would we have to do something to help them adjust to using milestones? (Could be as simple as an announcement to ubuntu-dev) > Currently we tag bugs by release name. If the proposed change is > implemented, it would be helpful to conduct a mass tag-to-nomination > change, to ensure bugs are properly targeted in the new system. > That sounds like a thing we could help with / do as part of the migration. > Anyway, this change could be a bit bumpy for Ubuntu but IMHO it ends up > providing a lot of benefit. > Thanks for the great feedback! 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
