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Re: [Launchpad-users] Your top three wishes for Launchpad? (4.0 planning)



2009/8/21 Karl Fogel <karl.fogel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> With the 3.0 release coming up soon, we're beginning the 4.0 planning
> process.  To help with prioritization, we'd like to know your top 3
> wishes for Launchpad 4.0.  Please follow up in this thread, and...

Nice idea.

0- I don't personally need a wiki at the moment, but I think it is a
gaping hole: everybody needs a website for their project so Launchpad
is never a total solution until it offers something.  People say "I
love Launchpad but I also have to also use Sourceforge to have a
website" which is perverse.  Let's get something simple going, even if
we don't promise it's the final solution.

My personal wishes as an upstream developer who uses Launchpad:

1- General workflow-oriented polish on the bugs application: for
example, using my (popularly acclaimed :-) idea of saying "and 43
closed bugs" when your search matches them
<https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/malone/+bug/277352>, or showing
milestone-targeted bugs in a portlet, or showing the count of affected
users, or not losing your search text when going from a simple to an
advanced search or have a google-like boolean search language, or do
an answers-like "this needs info/here's the info" handoff.

In other words, in Bugs, don't add new stuff, just do small fixes to
make what's already there more pleasant.

2- Develop the code review feature more: always supply a diff, make it
easier to comment on the diff, and make the fact that the code review
is happening visible in other places (like bugs).  This is moving
really well recently so I'm basically saying, don't let up the
pressure.

3- More work on the milestone/release/announcement feature: making a
release should automatically send mail and go into a feed; we can help
upstream developers here a lot by doing this.  Make the project as it
appears in Launchpad reflect what's important to the project: releases
and announcements are important.

The (or a) question I think Launchpad developers need in the back of
their mind is: suppose a random software user or developer lands on
any random Launchpad page.  Does it clearly convey to them both what
the project would want them to know, and also why Launchpad is cool?

-- 
Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>



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