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[Julian Edwards <julian.edwards@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Hudson wrote:
> Robert Collins wrote:
>> On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 15:36 +0000, Julian Edwards wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Well let's put it another way - you have a new recipe for a new
>>> package
>>> that's not in Launchpad.
>>>
>>> How would you traverse to it?  It seems a bit chicken-and-egg to me. 
>> To do this you need:
>>  - new upstream
>>  - new packaging branch
>>  - new recipe
>>  - new SPR
>>
>> I think for maximum ease of use we shouldn't force *any* ordering on
>> creating these things.
>>
>> That is: put recipe where it makes the most sense. And let folk click a
>> 'new package' button at the point they need to add a SPR. Just like they
>> would click a 'new recipe' button to add a recipe.
> 
> This principle makes sense to me.

Me too.  Although from a UDS session this week, it's apparent that most
people don't seem to care about a UI, they want something like
"bzr uploadmypackage" :)