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

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 10:31:49AM +0100, Matthew East wrote:
> 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

We used milestones for this currently.

> 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

However there is more than one mechanism in launchpad for this, which is why
that page is confusing.

> 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

I didn't realize that; ugh.

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 - mdz