don't use bug tasks for transitions

[Stefan Potyra]

Hi folks,

as overheard on #ubuntu-devel today, please don't use one bug with many 
different tasks for transitions. The problem with this is, that any 
subscriber of an affected package will get every mail for a change in that 
bug (in short: [he/she'll get] "zillion mails" [in which he/she has] "no 
interest in"[1]).

For what tasks are not meant to be used, I'll give you this quotation: "if the 
fixes required would be independent, they should be separate bugs" [2]

Finally, one option to handle transitions via LP was also proposed: "it's 
easier to file [separate] bugs and tag those" [3].

Cheers,
   Stefan.
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[1]: two quotes mixed up here from seb128 in #ubuntu-devel
[2]: cjwatson
[3]: seb128

(cf. <http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2008/05/30/%23ubuntu-devel.html>).
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