Transition-Regression Tag

[David Tombs]

Indeed "transition" is vague. It's long, but perhaps 
"default-switch-regression"?

David

Brian Curtis wrote:
> Charlie,
> 
> Thanks for your reply.  I brought it up here for this reason.  I
> didn't get much reply in the IRC channel as to which wording would be
> best for this tag.
> 
> The idea behind the tag was specifically one that marks bugs that
> mention possible problems users will have in their transition from
> rhythmbox to banshee.  For example, items that rhythmbox has that
> banshee doesn't that devs can work on putting into banshee if they
> decide they want it in there.
> 
> As far as which wording for the tag would be best is really something
> I'm not great at deciding, and discussion on that is what I was trying
> to obtain through this e-mail.
> 
> I hope this answers your question.
> 
> ~Brian Curtis
> 
> On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 10:00 PM, Charlie Kravetz
> <cjk at teamcharliesangels.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, 1 Jun 2009 21:44:48 -0400
>> Brian Curtis <briancurtis.wx at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Upon discussions with mrooney about potential regressions due to
>>> programs (like empathy and banshee) being transitioned to default.
>>> There is a new tag, which is also listed in
>>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Tags called "transition-regression" that
>>> is meant to mark bugs that may need to be addressed so users can make
>>> an easy transition from one default to another.
>>>
>>> An example of such a bug is
>>> https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/banshee/+bug/235529
>>>
>>> Discussion?
>>>
>>> ~Brian Curtis
>>>
>> Maybe it is me, but could you explain a little as to what this actually
>> means. I believe transition = "changing", and regression = "worked
>> before but is now broken". How does that apply to the referenced bug,
>> where it does not appear it ever worked?
>>
>>
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