Package Sets and Sponsoring

[James Westby]

On Tue, 9 Feb 2010 12:21:59 -0500, Mackenzie Morgan <macoafi at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 February 2010 11:10:34 am James Westby wrote:
> > On Tue, 9 Feb 2010 15:58:18 +0000, Iain Lane <laney at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > That's correct, but it will tend to become less true over time. I saw
> > you mention on IRC that providing personalised lists would be ideal, and
> > I would agree with that. The key is presenting it with reasonable
> > performance, ideas for that welcome.
> 
> Have a "MOTU" button for that simple filter.  Otherwise, text entry field, enter 
> your launchpad ID and then have it dig through the list of stuff to be 
> sponsored and see what you can do.  And then hope all the core-devs realise 
> there's no point in them even trying to get a personalised list?
> 
> OK yeah, still have to iterate through the full list of things to be 
> sponsored...which is hopefully not so long as to be a performance issue, but I 
> can think of less efficient ways to do it.

It is slow, as it's not a single round trip for each package in the list,
and there are a bunch of packages to check. We would want to cache the
information somehow, but I'm not sure how to do that without caching for
every person on LP.

I'm going to keep working on this for merge requests, as it is possible
to solve there easily, but it's not exposed over the API yet.

Thanks,

James