Launchpad bug statuses

[Scott Kitterman]

On Tuesday 02 October 2007 16:50, Forest Bond wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 09:14:34PM +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> > * "Fix Committed (Please Test My Fix)"
> >
> > The status is used by the some teams to mark bugs which have been fixed
> > upstream since it makes easier to review bugs that have a patch to
> > backport or should be closed when the next version is uploaded
>
> Isn't the correct way to handle this to add the upstream project to
> launchpad and set the bug so that it also affects upstream?  Then you can
> be explicit about the bug's status upstream.
>
> This came up recently here:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/newt/+bug/54555
>
> -Forest

Who is going to add upstream projects for the thousands of packages in Ubuntu?   
I don't imagine this approach is very scalable.  

If some teams are using the status this way, I don't think the right answer is 
to say, "No, you should do it this way that's more work."

Scott K