Mark users as away

[sense at qense.nl]

Quoting Curtis Hovey <curtis.hovey at canonical.com>:

> Hi Sense.
>
> On Sat, 2008-04-12 at 16:32 +0200, sense at qense.nl wrote:
>> Hello Launchpad users,
>>
>> I've got a suggestion and would like to hear your opinion about this
>> and let the LP devs know about it. ;) So here it comes:
>>
>> Often you'll find yourself in a situation that you need to go away for
>> a weekend, or maybe even longer. But if you'd disappear without saying
>> anything people wouldn't understand it when you wouldn't reply when
>> they ask you something via the mail or at LP. This could be solved by
>> placing a notice at your blog and mail everyone in the mailinglists of
>> the teams you're active in, but that would give a lot of off-topic
>> mailinglist noise and not everyone would be warned. If an option to
>> Launchpad would be added to tell the system you're away and for how
>> long people would understand if you didn't reply. But in order to
>> prevent people from having to look in your profile everytime if you're
>> away, your name should also be marked while you're away. The date of
>> return can just be showed at your profile.
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>
> I think the feature you are suggesting is, or is  like, the
> launchpad-vacation feature. There is a spec for it:
> https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/launchpad/+spec/launchpad-vacation
>
> --
> __Curtis C. Hovey_________
> http://launchpad.net/
>

This is indeed something similar, but not exactly what I suggested. ;)  
It's something different. But I think the suggestion I made could be a  
perfect addition for this, if they aren't already planning to add this  
feature in the UI.

Sense Hofstede