Using the "patch" tag for bugs

[Jordan Mantha]

On Nov 26, 2007 8:04 AM, Emmet Hikory <persia at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Fellow Developers,
>     Malone currently tracks a flag for bug attachments that indicate
> whether the bug is a patch or not, and we've a few URLs here and there
> that point to bug searches that use this flag to select patches from
> users that might be suitable for inclusion in the archive.  Recently,
> I've had a couple new Contributors looking for ways to help mention to
> me that some of the bugs returned by these searches don't contain any
> patches, and my own investigations indicate that this mechanism seems
> to have about a 50% hit rate.
>

I'm all for having a nice clean way of seeing which bugs have patches.
I wonder though if the Launchpad system should be fixed rather than
having two systems (LP flag and tag). It's kind of annoying to have
two places/systems for the same thing.

-Jordan