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On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 9:04 AM, Jay Pipes <jaypipes at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 09/08/2014 03:46 AM, Dmitry Mescheryakov wrote:
>
>> Hello Fuelers,
>>
>> On the previous meeting a topic was raised on how Fuel doc team should
>> work with bugs, see [1] for details. We agreed to move the discussion
>> into the mailing list.
>>
>> The thing is there are two members in the team at the moment (Meg and
>> Irina) and they need to distribute work among themselves. The natural
>> way to distribute load is to assign bugs. But frequently they document
>> bugs which are in the process of being fixed, so they are already
>> assigned to an engineer. I.e. a bug needs to be assigned to an
>> engineer and a tech writer at the same time.
>>
>> I've proposed to create a separate series 'docs' in launchpad (it is
>> the thing like '5.0.x', '5.1.x'). If bug affects several series, a
>> different engineer could be assigned on each of them. So doc team will
>> be free to assign bugs to themselves within this new series.
>>
>> Mike Scherbakov and Dmitry Borodaenko objected creating another series
>> in launchpad. Instead they proposed to mark bugs with tags like
>> 'docs-irina' and 'docs-meg' thus assigning them.
>>
>> What do you think is the best way to handle this? As for me, I don't
>> have strong preference there.
>>
>> One last note: the question applies to two launchpad projects
>> actually: Fuel and MOS. But naturally we want to do this the same way
>> in both projects.
>>
>
> Hi Dmitry!
>
> Good question and problem! :) This limitation of Launchpad has bugged me
> for some time (pun intended). It would be great to have the ability to
> assign a bug to more than one person.
>
> I actually think using tags is more appropriate here. Series are intended
> for releasable things. And since we'd never be "releasing" just a docs
> package, having a docs series doesn't really work. So, though it's a bit
> kludgy, I think using tags is the best solution here.
>

Thanks to you both for noting! Yes, I agree tags are the best solution with
Launchpad.

Love that you're thinking about how to pair-bug-squash!

Anne


>
> All the best,
> -jay
>
>
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