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Barry Warsaw <barry {_AT_} canonical.com>
3. User defined bug prioritizing. So I have 7 High priority bugs that I have to fix this cycle and hopefully will have time to do so. My manager and I have negotiated a priority order in which I'm supposed to attack these bugs. How do I capture that in Launchpad? Note that my priority might be different than your priority for the same bugs, which is great because if you get to bug 123 before I do, you'll take it. On the subject of bugs, I gave a talk at our local Python Users Group on Monday on lazr.restful and argparse. Both talks went well, but what caught my attention was John Szakmeister's presentation of a cool Trac plugin. Here's what I wrote to an internal mailing list about it... So the idea behind this was that he had a list of milestones along the right side of the page, and a table of bugs in the main part of the page. He said that one of the things they do all the time is sit with the client and re-prioritize bugs. He is able to drag-and-drop bugs up and down his list to re-prioritize them. It looked a lot like the way I can drag-and-drop movies in my Netflix queue to reorder them. That in itself was pretty cool, but then he showed how they can assign bugs to milestones by dragging them from the main table into the little milestone boxes on the right side. When he expanded the milestone, there were the bugs he'd dragged in. It would have been cooler if the milestone boxes displayed the dragged bugs in real time, but still it was a pretty cool demo. I really liked that he was thinking about prioritizing bugs and came up with a very intuitive way of doing it, as well as a simple intuitive way of assigning bugs to milestones. Might be something to think about for bugs.lp.net in the future.
