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[Aaron Bentley <aaron@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On 11/19/2010 08:14 AM, Danilo Šegan wrote:
> У чет, 18. 11 2010. у 21:23 +0000, Gavin Panella пише:
>> On 18 November 2010 15:42, Aaron Bentley <aaron@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> You don't have to wait for that.  You can configure your submit branch
>>> to default to whatever you like for all new launchpad branches.
>>
>> Unless he's creating merge proposals via the web; it defaults to
>> db-devel. Forgetting to select devel is a mistake I have made many
>> times.
> 
> We can only reduce the frequency of this: whenever you've got to submit
> a branch for merge againt db-devel, you'll hit the same problem.

You could set an alias for lp-propose to do "lp-propose :parent".  Then
you'd always propose for merging into whatever you branched from.  But
yes, people do have to decide at some point.

> And if we are only looking for a band-aid, perhaps we can have users'
> browser remember the last choice (through a cookie or something) and
> then offer this as a feature for everybody using MPs instead?

We already scour the project for popular targets.  We could just default
to the most popular target instead of defaulting to the development focus.

Aaron
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