On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Mark Shuttleworth
<mark@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
These are *awesome* ideas, Alex.
Thank you Mark, I really appreciate it.
Alex Lourie wrote:
I think that I am going different route than intended, but
should such integration end with bug submissions? What about asking
questions with sort of a GUI interface to Launchpad Answers directly
without a browser?
Ideally, LP would be integrated straight into your IDE. So bugs,
branches, answers, blueprints could all be referenced and managed from
within the IDE. "Make a new branch to fix that bug", "Submit this
branch for review", "Merge this branch into that one" could all be
driven directly from inside the IDE.
While this would be a sort of heaven on Earth to see this in an IDE, I think that Answers are still much more user-oriented, than developers oriented.
I imagine this as something in lines of:
I click on some sort of "Ask a question" icon/button/link, and get a very simple dialog, where I put a subject and the message, and press "Ask!" button. When answer is provided on LP, I'd get notification from indicator applet, just as I would for IM message or for twitter or identica.
Any Eclipse guys in the audience?
How about my launchpad account would be a Jabber account as
well? So I could "chat" with any other Launchpad user using Empathy and
already configured user/password?
This is coming. Ubuntu One uses LP accounts for its backend "identity",
so you will be able to chat out of the box with anyone else who uses LP
or U1 (or any other service which uses that for OpenID).
Awesome!
How about my launchpad account would be a StatusNet account as
well and I could participate in real time communications over Launchpad?
Very cool!
It would be also interesting, for example, if I could get
notification that a bug I've been subscribed to is closed, without
hitting the browser.
Even cooler :-)
Mark
Great! It should be very interesting to see such an integration with the desktop.
Alex.