Changes to work items in launchpad

[Laura Czajkowski]

Work items in Launchpad
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A few days back, I emailed you about how Linaro have been adding native support for work items to Launchpad.

I also mentioned a migration for existing work items. The migration of Ubuntu work items will go ahead after the release of 12.04 LTS and we'll set the date in collaboration with the Ubuntu Engineering team.

However, you will see a new work items text box appear on blueprint pages over the next day or so. If you ignore it, nothing else changes for now.


What to do with work items
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The new work items text box works just the same way as work items in the whiteboard. We've updated status.ubuntu.com to read work items from both the whiteboard and the work items box.

So, if your team wants to start using the work items text box, nothing will change. Similarly, you can carry on using the whiteboard without losing anything.


Why have we made this change?
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Before now, Launchpad knew nothing about the detail of work items: it saw them as no more than text in the whiteboard.

Now that Launchpad can parse work items, it can start to do interesting things with them. For example, within time you'll be able to get a view of all the work items and bugs assigned to a person or team for a particular milestone.

Thanks to Linaro for adding native work items support to Launchpad!

If you're totally new to work items, take a look at our short help guide:

   https://help.launchpad.net/WorkItems

If you have any questions or comments, please join us on the launchpad-users mailing list at:

   https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-users


Cheers!

Laura

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Laura Czajkowski
Launchpad Support Specialist

-- 
Laura Czajkowski
Launchpad Support Specialist