Comment 6 for bug 90738

On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 06:08:20AM -0000, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> I might be misunderstanding you, but those definitions seem to be much
> the same as those I gave in my first comment -- definitions that Ubuntu
> is not following because they're impractical, and that I've suggested
> would still be impractical even if mass changes were implemented.

The only reason they're impractical is because Launchpad and Bazaar don't
yet support automating this. My understanding is that this work is planned
for an unspecified time in the future.

> So would you prefer to change (1) the statuses (e.g. merging them into
> "Done" with a fixed-in-versions field), (2) the definitions of the current
> statuses (e.g. for "Released" to mean "in the newest development version"
> rather than "in the latest release"), or (3) the Ubuntu process (with the
> help of a mass change UI and perhaps a "Date Fixed" bug listing column)?

(2) is what we are doing today, though it sounds like the definitions in
Launchpad itself don't match, while we wait for (4) Launchpad automatically
tracks the progress of a fix through Bazaar into the distro, and updates the
bug accordingly.

If (4) isn't going to happen, I'm fine with updating the definitions in
Launchpad, but my understanding is that they're global, and this would upset
Launchpad developers who don't have this ambiguity due to having only one
version of Launchpad in production at a time.

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 - mdz