Most of the projects I work on don’t have milestones, just releases. Releasing should be as easy as tagging a revision of the Bazaar repository, or possibly uploading a file. But it seems that to make a release, it is necessary to first make a milestone, for which it is necessary to make a series.

This enforces far too much structure on our development process. The Commonsense Computing Group isn’t a software company with a rigid development structure, it’s a handful of grad students trying to keep our code usable by the world because collaboration helps us with our research. The theory of what makes a milestone different from a release isn’t what I should be thinking about as I use Launchpad.