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[Michael Hudson <michael.hudson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Julian Edwards wrote:
> 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" :)

Well that's good, it means that they shouldn't care how long the URL is...

Cheers,
mwh