launchpad-dev team mailing list archive

[Brad Crittenden <brad.crittenden@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Dec 14, 2011, at 05:53 , Danilo Šegan wrote:

> Hi Brad,
> 
> And regards to everyone else Yellow-tinted in Raleigh
> 
> У уто, 13. 12 2011. у 17:53 -0500, Brad Crittenden пише:
> 
>> * Milestones can have zero or more tags, just like bug tags.
>> 
>> * A new project group page <projectgroup>/+tag/<tag> will be produced
>> to show all items associated with the milestones tagged with <tag>.  It
>> will look very similar to <projectgroup>+milestone/<milestone> but the
>> milestones will be filtered by the tag.  (See attached mockup, page 1.)
>> 
>> * The project group overview page will have a new section titled
>> "Milestones" and in it will be a text entry box with a search button. 
>> Use of the search will take the user to the +tag page described above. 
>> The entry box will autocomplete known tags.  (See attached mockup, page
>> 2.)
> 
> This actually sounds pretty good for our use case.  When can we have
> it? :)


Talk to Gary.  :) 

> 
> This brings another consideration for me: who can add the tags, and who
> can remove them? Just maintainers/drivers?  If anyone can do it, we'd be
> worried when we try to use them to manage our releases (which is why we
> are using milestones atm).

We would limit tag creation to the same permissions as milestone creation -- maintainers/drivers. 

> 
>> * Provide a similar <project>/+tag page and a means to navigate to it.
> 
> The other thing I'd really like to see is ability to combine tags as
> well, i.e. <projectgroup>/+tag/2011.12/infrastructure — I understand
> that may have other implications (like performance and such; of course,
> the URL example above is nothing but an example).

Interesting idea for future work.

> 
> This does not have to be there in the first go, and we'd be interested
> in investing resources in allowing that if the infrastructure is such
> that it provides for it.
> 
> Mockups also show nothing about how the tags are created, so I hope
> that's going to be easy enough and will fall nicely into our release
> management activities.


Initially, adding a tag on a milestone will be done by simply entering space-separated strings in a text entry field.  At a later date when a project group has official tags we'd be able to provide autocomplete in that text entry box.

Thanks for the feedback Danilo.

--Brad