Lack of release targeting in Malone (was Re: Bugging questions)

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 07:29:09PM +0100, Matthew East wrote:
> Seems that us normal users can't change or even see this. So the use of
> milestones on bugs is not really useful, because the bug reporter can't
> tell what milestone has been set for his bug (at least through the UI,
> he can do it through email), and the bug triager can't change it unless
> he is in ubuntu-drivers (and very few triagers of (say) ubuntu-docs bugs
> are).

This is why Malone makes a distinction between distribution packages and
upstream products.  You should target your fixes to releases of ubuntu-docs,
and Ubuntu drivers should target Ubuntu releases.  If you feel that a bug
should be fixed for Dapper, notify me and I will take that decision.

My understanding is that in the future, Malone will incorporate this
workflow: anyone can "nominate" a bug for a milestone, but an authority must
confirm it.

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 - mdz