<quoting name="Michael Roberson" date="2009-10-04" time="10:10:35 -0400">
Post by Michael RobersonThe submitter of a bug on launchpad just emailed me politely asking if
we can assign the bug to the ubuntu-9.10 milestone. Can we do that or is
it something that only a maintainer can do? What is the accepted way to
indicate that a bug affects only 9.10?
It is assumed that the bugs in Launchpad affect the latest version of
Ubuntu, in this case 9.10. And when 9.10 comes out, it is assumed all
those same bugs are in 10.04. Thus, there is no need to indicate it is
only in 9.10 via a milestone.
However, you can indicate that in the description (which it looks like
they have).
More info on how milestones are used in Ubuntu:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RCBugTargetting
Basically, use the milestone when a bug needs to be fixed in that version
of Ubuntu. For instance, if it is a security issue that needs to be fixed
in the previous LTS release (which is still supported) you would add a
milestone for for that LTS release.
They use the 9.10 milestone to keep track of bugs that need to be fixed
before release, like Debian's Release Critical bugs. You can see a list
of those for Karmic here:
https://edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+milestone/ubuntu-9.10
I don't think I explained milestones very well yesterday; hope this helps
clear it up.
Best,
Greg