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

[John McCabe-Dansted <gmatht@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 11:45 PM, Karl Fogel<karl.fogel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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...

1) Make it easy to tell if a bug with the exact same summary has been
proposed. If apport creates with summary "Title signal 5 in foo_bar",
tell me whether a bug with the exact same summary has been reported. I
am guessing that if the summaries differ then the bug is either
different or that at least exhibits different symptoms which may
assist in debugging.

Ideally this would also be integrated into apport so that I just get a
message saying "this is a known bug" before having to upload several
MB of test data, but just increasing the size of the Summary text area
in launchpad so that I can see the whole apport generated summary
would be a start.

2) I agree that Debian packages in PPAs would be nice.

3) Official PPAs directly linked to package names. so e.g. if I want
to upgrade to the latest version of abiword, I can go to
      ppa_official.launchpad/abiword
and choose from various possible versions maybe "latest_2.4.x",
"latest_stable" and "latest_development" etc. In principle this could
break the system, but
  - we could have user reviews saying whether the new version worked
for them, if they had difficulty downgrading etc.
  - We could limit these PPAs to contain changes from upstream only
(or changes approved by Ubuntu Developers) and so we would at least
know that these wouldn't add malware to the system.

This feature could be linked into the Ubuntu Software Store.

-- 
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia