wishlist: public whiteboard on branch pages

[Martin Pool]

On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 13:37 +0200, David Allouche wrote:
> Martin Pool wrote:
> > If you consider a page like  
> > 
> >   https://launchpad.net/people/cfbolz/+branch/bzr/usecases-benchmarks
> > 
> > I'm just merging in Carl's work; I'd like to add a note to that effect
> > on the branch page.  It would be nice if pages about long-lived publicly
> > interesting objects like this had, say, a 'status whiteboard' field, or
> > an append-only comment list or something.
> 
> There was some discussion initially about doing "branch discussions" in
> the same way that we do bug comments, however this would have some
> difficult implications. If you think you really want a public-writable
> whiteboard for branches, I would be glad to braindump a few possible
> tracks and their respective issues.
> 
> I think your use case would be better served by Launchpad displaying the
> branches that fully merge the branch being displayed, as suggested in
> this bug:
> 
> https://launchpad.net/products/launchpad-bazaar/+bug/30668
> 
> It would be easy to provide a naive implementation of that if we start
> by implementing complete-branch-revision:
> 
> https://features.launchpad.net/products/launchpad-bazaar/+spec/complete-branch-revision
> 
> What do you think?

Well, showing that would be very nice, but it doesn't actually serve the
case I had here: I want to say "I'm *going to* merge this", though I
haven't yet.  I think both features have value.

-- 
Martin Pool <mbp at sourcefrog.net>