[rfc] bug targeting in Launchpad

[Jonathan Lange]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Robert
Collins<robert.collins at canonical.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 12:33 +1000, Jonathan Lange wrote:
>
>> Rob's pointed out in other threads that the RM perhaps does too much
>> wrangling. For my part, most of the wrangling I did was looking at the
>> list of bugs on the 1.16 milestone and asking "is it done?", "does it
>> need to be there?". There would have been less wrangling were the list
>> shorter & more clearly focused.
>
> Yes. Further, perhaps the list should have been empty! I think that
> looking at pending work is an ongoing task not a release management
> task.
>

In this case, there was at least one bug which would have made
Launchpad unusable had it upgraded...

> Things that we'll slip the release for should be the only bugs that the
> RM sees or cares about.
>

... which is certainly something I care about, and I think that it's
something we should have slipped the release for, if necessary.

jml