Re: The need for more verbose work item updates

2011-05-25 Thread Marcin Juszkiewicz
Each time when I spoke with Launchpad team I got a feeling that blueprint part of it is unwanted child which no one want to talk about. Adding workitems as bug links allows to work around lack of history but they people which are subscribed to BP does not get updates from bugs. Anyone with permi

Re: The need for more verbose work item updates

2011-05-24 Thread Zygmunt Krynicki
W dniu 24.05.2011 20:55, James Westby pisze: On Tue, 24 May 2011 18:36:18 +0100, Dave Martin wrote: It really feels like it could be time to promote the work items to a real entity in launchpad. Has this been discussed before? Many times. It's not something that the Launchpad team is likely

Re: The need for more verbose work item updates

2011-05-24 Thread Wookey
+++ James Westby [2011-05-24 14:55 -0400]: > In addition, I'm wary of adding lots of extra features to workitems, as > I feel they tend to be symptomatic of trying to load up engineers with > too much process. We should always be careful to balance the desire for > more information with the overhe

Re: The need for more verbose work item updates

2011-05-24 Thread Peter Maydell
On 24 May 2011 20:31, Zach Pfeffer wrote: > My solution to this is to file a bug and link it to the BP if it needs > more than one line of info. This seems to work because anything that > needs more than one line is probably not 2 days of work - which is > what should go in the BP (which is my und

Re: The need for more verbose work item updates

2011-05-24 Thread Michael Hope
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 2:21 AM, Alexandros Frantzis wrote: > Hi all, > > in some of the blueprints I am following, I have noticed that many work > items updates (e.g. to DONE/POSTPONED/BLOCKED) are not accompanied by > any additional information.  Of course, not all work items need > more informa

Re: The need for more verbose work item updates

2011-05-24 Thread Zach Pfeffer
My solution to this is to file a bug and link it to the BP if it needs more than one line of info. This seems to work because anything that needs more than one line is probably not 2 days of work - which is what should go in the BP (which is my understanding). The bugs get picked up by status, so i

Re: The need for more verbose work item updates

2011-05-24 Thread James Westby
On Tue, 24 May 2011 18:36:18 +0100, Dave Martin wrote: > It really feels like it could be time to promote the work items > to a real entity in launchpad. Has this been discussed before? Many times. It's not something that the Launchpad team is likely to work on at all this year, even if there w

Re: The need for more verbose work item updates

2011-05-24 Thread Dave Martin
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 04:04:11PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 24 May 2011 15:21, Alexandros Frantzis > wrote: > > in some of the blueprints I am following, I have noticed that many work > > items updates (e.g. to DONE/POSTPONED/BLOCKED) are not accompanied by > > any additional information.

Re: The need for more verbose work item updates

2011-05-24 Thread Peter Maydell
On 24 May 2011 15:21, Alexandros Frantzis wrote: > in some of the blueprints I am following, I have noticed that many work > items updates (e.g. to DONE/POSTPONED/BLOCKED) are not accompanied by > any additional information.  Of course, not all work items need > more information, but some are mean