Enhancements as opposed to bugs

Daniel van Vugt daniel.van.vugt at canonical.com
Wed Oct 16 01:28:54 UTC 2013


I think we all agree Launchpad does not represent enhancement/feature 
requests ideally. That's why I asked how we'd like to work around the 
shortcomings.

Also, I just found the bug (which itself is actually a feature request) 
and it looks unlikely to be resolved:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/176431


On 15/10/13 22:09, Michał Sawicz wrote:
> On 15.10.2013 16:04, Daniel d'Andrada wrote:
>>
>> Bugs and new features are, on a slighly higher level, the same thing:
>> work that has to be done on some piece of software, according to some
>> specs, with a target milestone, an assignee, a given priority, a state
>> (in progress, new, commited, released), a discussion around it, etc.
>>
>> At my previous job we had different systems for those (bugs and
>> features) for a long time and it was awesome when we finally started
>> using only one (the bug tracker, but tweaked a bit to better accommodate
>> those two kinds of tasks) for everything. I think it's just natural to
>> do so.
>
> I believe the biggest problem with launchpad in that regard is that
> "Wishlist" is the lowest priority (Importance) level. You can't make an
> enhancement higher priority than a bug, that's why some clear
> distinguishing between a bug and a feature would be nice indeed.
>



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