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+1 for tags

On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 12:05 AM, Anne Gentle <anne at openstack.org> wrote:

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> On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 9:04 AM, Jay Pipes <jaypipes at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 09/08/2014 03:46 AM, Dmitry Mescheryakov wrote:
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>>> 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.
>>>
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>> 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.
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> Thanks to you both for noting! Yes, I agree tags are the best solution
> with Launchpad.
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> Love that you're thinking about how to pair-bug-squash!
>
> Anne
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>> All the best,
>> -jay
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