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



1. Pervasive reStructuredText support. This means that I can enter reST into any textbox and it will be properly formatted, including description fields, whiteboards, blueprints, bug comments, merge proposal reviews, etc. It also leads naturally to supporting reST formatted documentation, wikis and blogs.

2. Project/team affiliations. As a user interested in a project, I want to be able to go to a project's index page and immediately see "team X is the user community and has a mailing list" "team Y is the developer community" "team Z has commit rights", etc. As a project manager, I want to be able to make and manage these explicit connections between projects and teams in one place.

3. User defined bug prioritizing. So I have 7 High priority bugs that I have to fix this cycle and hopefully will have time to do so. My manager and I have negotiated a priority order in which I'm supposed to attack these bugs. How do I capture that in Launchpad? Note that my priority might be different than your priority for the same bugs, which is great because if you get to bug 123 before I do, you'll take it.

On the subject of bugs, I gave a talk at our local Python Users Group on Monday on lazr.restful and argparse. Both talks went well, but what caught my attention was John Szakmeister's presentation of a cool Trac plugin. Here's what I wrote to an internal mailing list about it...

So the idea behind this was that he had a list of milestones along the right side of the page, and a table of bugs in the main part of the page. He said that one of the things they do all the time is sit with the client and re-prioritize bugs. He is able to drag-and-drop bugs up and down his list to re-prioritize them. It looked a lot like the way I can drag-and-drop movies in my Netflix queue to reorder them.

That in itself was pretty cool, but then he showed how they can assign bugs to milestones by dragging them from the main table into the little milestone boxes on the right side. When he expanded the milestone, there were the bugs he'd dragged in. It would have been cooler if the milestone boxes displayed the dragged bugs in real time, but still it was a pretty cool demo.

I really liked that he was thinking about prioritizing bugs and came up with a very intuitive way of doing it, as well as a simple intuitive way of assigning bugs to milestones. Might be something to think about for bugs.lp.net in the future.

-Barry

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