Ubuntu Bugzilla to Malone (Launchpad) migration complete

[Ian Jackson]

Christian Robottom Reis writes ("Re: Ubuntu Bugzilla to Malone (Launchpad) migration complete"):
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 06:27:08PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > * Bug text should be rendered in a fixed-width font.
> 
> This is an ongoing war. Matthew, what's the news from the front?

War ?  War ?  There is only one (1) correct answer to this question.

> Do you mean the +bugs/ versus +bug/ issue, or is it because the bugs are
> on different "branches" or the URL tree?

Matthew has pointed out that just editing the bug number does get you
to a version of the bug.

> > * The phrases `Fix Requested In' and `Request fix' seem meaningless to
> >   me.  I'm scared to try out clicking on `Request fix' in case it does
> >   something stupid.  Presumably these could be translated into
> >   some more standard terminology ?
> 
> They might, but I don't think anyone has ever been able to come up with
> a better set of terms with them. These links are what connects bugs to
> tasks -- each bug can have one or more tasks, which are places that need
> work done to fix the bug. When you have a bug reported in Ubuntu that
> needs to be fixed upstream and then packaged, that means two tasks: an
> upstream task (that may be linked to an upstream bug tracker if upstream
> has specified one) and an Ubuntu task (that will probably be fixed after
> the upstream bug is).
> 
> Having read the long version, do you have suggestions?

No, I have a question/criticism:

What is a `task' ?  Why the multiplication of apparently unnecessary
concepts ?  When I file a bug in the Debian BTS I do not see myself as
`creating' a `task'.

Ian.