On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Julian Edwards<julian.edwards@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thanks for the feedback guys. > > On Friday 07 August 2009 10:27:04 Jonathan Lange wrote: >> I showed the page to cjwatson & mpt: here's what they said (roughly): >> >> * (cjwatson) It's very important to have a page that has every >> upload and the changelog entry corresponding to each upload. This is >> different from the current changelog, since changelog entries can be >> deleted. Such a page needs to be structured so that the browser's text >> search can be used to quickly find things. > > Colin, what's the use case for this? I am just wondering if there's a better > way of doing what you need. The problem with doing this is that it's not > scalable and a pretty costly page to render for some packages. We see a lot of > timeouts in the OOPS reports, so if I can find a better way we'd avoid that? > We'd also reduce end-user frustration. As an Ubuntu Developer, I strongly agree with cjwatson. When already working on Launchpad it's much easier to click on the link to the package's overview page to see the changelog than downloading the source or using another tool or site like packages.ubuntu.com. Having the full searchable changelog is important for figuring out why a change was done in the past. Particularly looking at sync or merge requests that drops an Ubuntu local change. Syncs are also the reason why having the changelog entry corresponding to each upload is important. Syncing a package from Debian will revert all Ubuntu specific changelog entries in both the source package and on packages.ubuntu.com. In fact, as far as I know the package overview page is the only place where this information is currently retained (although, I suppose when all packages are in bzr it will be there as well). If you suspect a change was dropped inadvertently or inappropriately finding where it was introduced is essential. It also makes it much more simple to tell if another Ubuntu developer has been taking care of a package in the past despite the changelog having no Ubuntu entries due to a sync.... - Andrew Starr-Bochicchio
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