Please register bazaar-ng branches at launchpad

[James Blackwell]

On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 08:29:46AM -0600, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> James Blackwell wrote:
> > While the group has been working on Bazaar-NG the launchpad team has been
> > working on Launchpad. The site is shaping up quite a bit and is ready to 
> > get some exercise in the branch-represention department. The Launchpad
> > team is hacking hard on the codebase and can use a pet project that is
> > heavily involved in Bazaar-NG in order to spur along development.
> > 
> 
> Do you only want branches of bazaar, or do you want branches of other
> projects which use bzr as well?

Bazaar-NG and other products related to Bazaar-NG (for example, bzrtools)
are most useful. If you have other stuff that you would have use
registering, I won't stand in your way.

> One bit of feedback, though. It is a little clumsy to enter a bunch of
> branches. You have to 'back' to the bzr/+branches page, and then select
>  '+ Add Bazaar Branch'. There is no 'Add another branch' on the final
> screen.

This seems like a reasonable request. I'm happy to file a bug on your
behalf if you like.


> And also, I get timeouts rather frequently. Out of 4-5 branches, I've
> gotten 2 timeouts. Resubmitting seems to work fine.

I'm sad to say that this happens from time to time. Slowdown and timeout
events come and go like flocks of birds. If you're getting a lot of
timeouts, I'd do something else for a few hours.

The launchpad guys already know.

> Also, I'm worried about branch names conflicting. However it looks like
> the branch references include the username, as in here:
> https://launchpad.net/people/john-arbash-meinel/+branch/bzr/storage

ddaa and Robert would be the experts on the branch namespace. I'll reserve
my belief unless they don't follow up.

> (By the way, is there any way to change my username to 'jam' or
> 'jameinel' instead of the full john at arbash-meinel.com?)

I'm presuming that you mean for logging in. Unfortunately, I'm told that
using an email address (any of your registered email addresses) for
logging in is required right now. The good news is that cookie expiration
is up to 12 hours and is about to move to 60 days. That should cut back on
having to deal with logging in quite so much.

Account names themselves do not include email addresses (you can see your
name by logging in then looking at the url. Mine on the top is jblack).

Also, I'm afraid that jam has already been taken by Jim McQuillan.


> Anyway, would it be possible for Launchpad to figure out the branch name
> as just the last hunk of the branch url? That is all I'm using anyway,
> and it seems like a reasonable default, allowing you to fill in one less
> field.

That would be possible. ddaa, comments?

> Oh, and on the list of branches page, they really should be sorted
> better. *Maybe* it is okay to have New first, but really the mature
> branches should be on the top, not the experimental ones.

There is definitely needs for reordering from a variety of fronts. I've
already seen this; my branches for my drupal websites are listed before
the official drupal site. 

There's a launchpad specification that deals with ordering based upon
"hotness", but I don't know the public-ness of it.

> And it might be nice to have the top-most branch be the 'official'
> bzr.dev branch. Otherwise when I go to that page, I see a dozen
> branches, and I don't know which is the "correct" one.
> 
> Oh, and I have a bunch of older branches in:
> http://bzr.arbash-meinel.com/branches/OLD/
> 
> Some of them are format-4 branches. Are you interested in having me
> register those as well?

Can Bazaar-NG still read format-4 in its current state? That would be the
definitive answer.

> I hope I didn't register too many :) I probably added around 20 branches.

Too much data in launchpad? HAH! 

Awesome job John. :)

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