Comment 1 for bug 253317

This is an interesting description of many separate bugs. I don't think it's specific to project groups, though. Indeed, I think it's Invalid for project groups, because I think it's extremely uncommon for all the projects in a project group to have the same series at the same time. The closest example I can think of is Gnome, where most projects switch to a new series at *roughly* the same time, but not exactly, and even there some projects maintain a separate versioning system.

Steps 1 and 18 are because Launchpad is abusing a project group for a single project. This in turn is because Launchpad lacks the necessary search and tagging features to handle Launchpad's large number of bugs. Solution: Fix the search- and tag-related bugs, then merge the launchpad-project projects into a single project. I think if we try to fix this any other way, we'll make Launchpad more confusing for every other project group. (Not to mention QA being unnnecessarily difficult in Ubuntu and every other project, because of the continuing weakness of search and tags.)

Step 3: When registering a series on launchpad.dev, I don't see anywhere that I need to set "the new series' status". Did you mean Summary, or something else? I've reported bug 253393 on the Summary being compulsory.

... That's all I have time for at the moment. I'll look at the other steps later.