keeping track of regressions during the development cycle

Dear developers,

>From time to time in the course of a development cycle, it's necessary to
make changes of a temporary nature that should be revisited and (hopefully)
reverted before the final release.  In order for the project as a whole to
be better able to track such changes, it would be a good idea to have a
consistent policy for how these bugs will be represented in Launchpad.

The proposed policy is that these bugs should be tracked as release-critical
bugs: nominated for the release, and targeted to the milestone before which
the change needs to be reviewed.  This policy has been documented on
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment> and on
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RCBugTargetting>.

As usual, please send any feedback to ubuntu-devel / ubuntu-devel-discuss.

Thanks,
-- 
Steve Langasek
On behalf of the Ubuntu release team