Hi Matt, this is not the first test project and not the first response of this kind. The concept of using staging for testing does not seem to catch on with first-time users and I don't see how it could. Most people will sit down and do their evaluation of Launchpad in one day - create an account - register a project - push some code - upload translations. But already the first step won't work on staging and delay the evaluation for another day at least, provided the user is aware that he needs to create the account on production and then go to staging a day later to use it for testing ...
I remember there was talk of an alternate user registration process for staging and that would help. But I think many users start evaluating by entering the actual data for their real project. If the evaluation is positive, they just continue with that data, if not, they ask us to delete the project, please. Only that we don't really do that ... If they used staging, the data they entered will be gone soon, loosing the user's work in data entry. Not an attractive option, either. I would just like to start the discussion (again?) how to provide a good test-drive experience on production that makes it easy for people just to go ahead and try it out. Maybe it is as simple as providing real project deletion. And kudos for your considerate reply and not just telling the user "well, you should have used staging" ... ;-) Henning Am 26.08.2009 13:08, Matthew Revell schrieb: > >> Honestly, >> >> I never have used launchpad before and I wanted to give it a test drive. I >> am trying to wrap some exploit development stuff in python and thought I >> would make it "legit" and enable code revision tracking. If I have done >> something wrong let me know and I can remove it. But for now it was purely >> for me to learn about launchpad and track changes to my development. > > Thanks for taking Launchpad for a test drive! You're very welcome to > use Launchpad to host your projects (free of charge for free software > projects). > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
