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[Deryck Hodge <deryck.hodge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Chris Johnston
<chrisjohnston@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On 09/28/2012 11:29 AM, Francis J. Lacoste wrote:
>> Better Privacy check-point 2012-09-26
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>> Summary -------
>>
>> * OEM/HWE still migrating en masse to Sharing * Private blueprints
>> are in beta * On track for Oct 8th private project milestone
>>
>> Blueprints privacy ------------------
>>
>> * Get the sprints blueprints query sorted out
>>
>
> Greetings,
>
> So after having a small side conversation to be brought up to speed as
> to what was meant by "Get the sprints blueprints query sorted out" I
> have a question to raise. My understanding from Francis is that a
> private blueprint will still be allowed to be proposed to a sprint,
> just nothing will happen as it will not show up on the sprint query.
> This seems like it would lead to a confusing UI by telling the user
> that they can do something, but then the user not receiving the
> expected result. Am I misunderstanding how this is planned to work, or
> it my understanding fairly accurate? If my understanding is accurate,
> has anything been thought of to combat this confusing UI that is being
> introduced?
>

A private blueprint will show up for people who can view it.  This
works like any other private object on Launchpad.  If you have
permission to view the object, then it will show up in your view of
the list, but if I do not, then it will not show up in my view.

Cheers,
deryck

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