[RFC] Transition tracker

[Loïc Minier]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008, Luca Falavigna wrote:
> In Ubuntu QA, we discussed to implement "transition tracker", a tool
> which tries to automate creation and management of a given transition.
> It will make use of Launchpad to file new bugs using the "one package,
> one bug" method described above, but providing a centralized interface
> which shows transition status and overall progress (how many bugs are
> fixed or open, LP status, etc).
> Preliminary code is available in a bzr branch [3] (it is a very young
> project, it's not meant to be functional right now).

 Thanks for your work!  I appreciate the effort to move away from the
 bug mail spam caused by the previous transitions.

 I understand the current approach is to share a directory with files
 listing the bugs for each transition; presumably you intend to host
 this on an Ubuntu QA host?

 In Debian, transitions used to be tracked via bug dependencies (a
 master bug for the transition depending on all the per-package bugs);
 nowadays it's implemented with "usertags".  Is there a reason that tags
 wouldn't be a good way to track Ubuntu transitions?

   Thanks again,
-- 
Loïc Minier