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[Kenneth Loafman <kenneth@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Terry wrote:
> 2009/6/25 Kenneth Loafman <kenneth@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> No problem.  I am having a bit of a problem with LP at the moment.
>> Their inflexibility about deletions may mean that we can't use stable as
>> the name of a branch.  It appears that since I created and deleted two
>> of them previously while learning the system, all of them reappear as
>> soon as I create the third one.  LP claims they can't delete them.
>> Sounds like a bad design, to me.
> 
> I don't see any extra series or branches, so I'm not 100% sure I know
> the problem you're talking about, but I do have an LP pro tip.
> 
> If you happen to *know* you're about to do something where you're not
> sure what the effect will be (like creating series or linking
> milestones to a release or whatever), you can use
> staging.launchpad.net to make the changes.  That site uses a copy of
> the real database and is overwritten with the real contents
> occasionally -- I think once a day.  So you can play there and break
> things and then it never affects the actual database.
> 
> Doesn't save you from making mistakes, but it does let you get
> familiar with how LP will do something.

I guess they deleted them manually since they are gone now.

Thanks for the tip.  I'll bear that in mind the next time I want to try
something out.  Could have saved me and some poor LP guy a bit of grief.

...Ken