Enhancements as opposed to bugs

[Daniel van Vugt]

I don't think "[ER]" is very user-friendly. No one outside the team 
would understand it.

How about "[feature]" or "[enhancement]"?


On 16/10/13 21:02, Kevin Gunn wrote:
> thanks for the feedback.
> it likely won't be something to be fixed in a short term - but i agree,
> bugs (over blueprints) seem closer to being 'everything' you'd want when
> looking at the vices & virtues of bugs vs blueprints.
> i think what bugs are missing is a bit of aggregation & reporting ...as
> well as a way to better reflect scheduling (for a big picture view)
>
> in the near term - there is certainly nothing wrong with pre-pending to
> the bug title...i would suggest "[ER]" for 'enhancement request'...
>
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 9:10 PM, Daniel van Vugt
> <daniel.van.vugt at canonical.com <mailto:daniel.van.vugt at canonical.com>>
> wrote:
>
>     Though I recall some of the proprietary issue tracking systems I've
>     used in the past clearly distinguished between Bug and Enhancement.
>
>     And that in itself was sometimes problematic. Where people can't
>     decide or agree if something is a bug or a feature, you either need
>     a third classification or a more neutral system that just doesn't
>     care (like Launchpad).
>
>
>
>     On 16/10/13 09:28, Daniel van Vugt wrote:
>
>         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
>         <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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