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[Henning Eggers <henning.eggers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Matt,

this is not the first test project and not the first response of this
kind. The concept of using staging for testing does not seem to catch on
with first-time users and I don't see how it could. Most people will sit
down and do their evaluation of Launchpad in one day - create an account
- register a project - push some code - upload translations. But already
the first step won't work on staging and delay the evaluation for
another day at least, provided the user is aware that he needs to create
the account on production and then go to staging a day later to use it
for testing ...

I remember there was talk of an alternate user registration process for
staging and that would help. But I think many users start evaluating by
entering the actual data for their real project. If the evaluation is
positive, they just continue with that data, if not, they ask us to
delete the project, please. Only that we don't really do that ...
If they used staging, the data they entered will be gone soon, loosing
the user's work in data entry. Not an attractive option, either.

I would just like to start the discussion (again?) how to provide a good
test-drive experience on production that makes it easy for people just
to go ahead and try it out. Maybe it is as simple as providing real
project deletion.

And kudos for your considerate reply and not just telling the user
"well, you should have used staging" ... ;-)

Henning


Am 26.08.2009 13:08, Matthew Revell schrieb:
> 
>> Honestly,
>>
>> I never have used launchpad before and I wanted to give it a test drive.  I
>> am trying to wrap some exploit development stuff in python and thought I
>> would make it "legit" and enable code revision tracking.  If I have done
>> something wrong let me know and I can remove it.  But for now it was purely
>> for me to learn about launchpad and track changes to my development.
> 
> Thanks for taking Launchpad for a test drive! You're very welcome to
> use Launchpad to host your projects (free of charge for free software
> projects).
>