Wishlist for https://launchpad.net/people/*/+packages

[Christian Robottom Reis]

On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 01:42:40PM -0500, Brad Bollenbach wrote:
> >    https://launchpad.net/people/sistpoty/+packages
> >
> >Thanks for pointing it out (!). Brad, this intensifies what I wrote to
> >Matt in my other email -- I think we should unfork +packages and
> >+packagebugs, making +packages more useful and allowing people to do
> >searches through bugs for which people are bug contacts /and/
> >maintainers /and/ uploaders.
> 
> Is there a strong use case for adding these concepts and extra UI to  
> Malone?
> 
> Given that even experienced devs have been wrestling with  
> differentiating between, e.g., default assignee vs. bug contacts (of  
> which only one of these even exists in Malone, of course :), adding  
> more, related concepts, should only be done, IMHO, if the ease-of-use  
> outweighs the extra complexity.

Well, the way I see it it would be useful to offer a person a page where
the packages he was interested in were listed in a comprehensive way. I
think it's somewhat useful for a person who does bug triage to know if a
new package has been uploaded, and it seems useful for a person
assembling and uploading packages to see if it has bugs reported on it.
I don't see much benefit in keeping everything separate (and a bit
redundant) if you see what I mean.

I'm listening, though -- I don't want the combined view to be confusing.
But I don't think the analogy with default assignee versus bug contacts
is very appropriate here. Perhaps if we keep clearly marking the
sections with headings that say something like:

    Maintained Packages

    Uploaded Packages

    Bug Contact Packages

less confusion would result.
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