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[Ian Clatworthy <ian.clatworthy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Robert Collins wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 15:10 +0000, Julian Edwards wrote:
> 
> 
>> 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" :)

Hi Julian,

By that, I assume you mean "I've packaged this branch. Upload it."? Or
did you mean "Package this branch for me and upload it."? Please
clarify. I think the second is far more important wrt connecting
upstreams to user communities via bzr+lp+ubuntu.

> However, many upstreams will be much less familiar with the toolchain
> and I believe we can offer a discoverable and pleasant web UI to do a
> number of common things like 'build a package with a bugfix', 'build
> dailies'. And we hope these things will build new communities of folk
> more skilled in the upstream code and less aware of the intricacies of
> dpkg packaging.

+1

Ian C.