Please register bazaar-ng branches at launchpad

[Andrew Bennetts]

Thanks for the feedback!

John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> 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.

Please file a bug about this at
https://launchpad.net/products/launchpad/+filebug

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

Please file a bug for this.  If you quote the OOPS ID on the error page, we can
easily find the offending code.  (Which doesn't mean it's easy to fix, of
course... ;)

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

It's currently set to "john-arbash-meinel", which was probably guessed from your
email address.  You should be able to change your name here:

https://launchpad.net/people/john-arbash-meinel/+edit

("john at arbash-meinel.com" is an email address you have registered in launchpad,
and hence what you use to login, but isn't your user name in Launchpad.)

> 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.

This sounds like a good idea.  If the URL field were before the name field, a
small javascript snippet could easily dissect the url and fill in a likely name
for you (which you could of course overwrite).

Would you mind filing a bug?

> 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.

I guess it depends on what uses the page will be put to.  I might be familiar
with all the mature branches of a product, but curious about what's new... we
need to figure out what people actually want to do so we can cater for that.

Having real, useful data in there will help us figure this out :)

Thanks for the suggestion.  Filing a bug in the form of a use case ("I want to
do X, but the page is sorted the wrong way") would be good.

> 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.

This strikes me as a very good idea.   Most products have an official trunk (and
maybe other official branches as well?).  I think there may be some overlap with
our concept of "product series"...

Again, a bug report so we don't forget would be wonderful :)

> 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?

James can answer that better than me, I think.

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

That's great!  The more the merrier.

-Andrew.