Lack of release targetting in Malone (was Re: Bugging questions)

[Matthew East]

On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 17:03 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 08:32:30PM +1200, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> > 3.  It's three weeks before the release of Edgy. A bug reported about
> >      the Ubuntu Installer was initially accepted for fixing in Edgy, but
> >      now it's too late, so it's deferred. Ubuntu ubuntu-installer
> >      status: Confirmed. Ubuntu Edgy ubuntu-installer status: Not For Us.
> 
> I find the UI here to be confusing, and so do our users.  It seems
> unintuitive to have a list which includes both distributions and releases;
> it's unclear what this should mean to the user.  What does the status of the
> 'Ubuntu' task mean?  If it's the status in the current development release,
> then it should say the name of the release instead.  If it means something
> else, then what?

I attempted to raise this a while ago on the launchpad-users mailing
list (cc:ing again), although my email was not particularly well focused
so may have gone unnoticed. It is quite a significant missing feature
from Malone at the moment that it does not properly track different
versions of distributions - each time you open a task on Ubuntu, it
opens it on a non-specific version, and it seems to be very difficult to
target a bug at a future version (which is quite a common use case, I
think). It seems that it is actually possible to file bugs on specific
versions of Ubuntu, but currently, Dapper seems to have just the one bug
[1] (yay).

[1] https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/dapper/+bugs

This is particularly problematic when you consider that Rosetta is
already doing correct release-targetting [2] and as a result the bugs
and translations are using rather different approaches.

[2] https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/dapper/+translations
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/hoary/+translations

Matt
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