On 3 February 2010 20:58, Aaron Bentley <[email protected]> wrote: > Michael Nelson wrote: >>> The main point that underlies all my comemnts is that your focus is on >>> "building a branch using a recipe," rather than "building a recipe." >> >> Yes, definitely. I had thought that the recipe is just a means to the >> user goal of building a branch. Sorry, I wasn't trying to minimise >> their importance or flexibility, but rather ensure that the desire "I >> want to build this branch" stays in focus. > > So are we sure that building from a recipe should be a user-level thing > at all? > > It seems like a major use case will be "build this branch using this > packaging branch". If we had a UI that just provided that, what > percentage of our users would still need more? > > Aaron
IMHO it would be 50/50 split cause I'm still thinking in terms of packaging branch as the starting point and which branches do I want to build using it. For example as an upstream project maintainer I will strive to minimize amount of packaging branches / recipes cause that's not usually upstream expertise. So I would have one packaging branch possibly pinched of ubuntu and then I will go to it and start thinking which of my project branches I want to build eg. stable release, supported release and this wacky hack I'm working on. And ooops hardy has different lib sonames so i need to use this other packaging branch cause it has build time patch. So again I would go to hardy packaging branch and say oh yeah do just the stable branch cause I really don't want anyone to develop latest features with out-of-date libs for example. This feature will be a popular both from Ubuntu development side and the upstream projects using launchpad for project management, QA / ubuntu experience enhancement. -- With best regards Dmitrijs Ledkovs (for short Dima), Ледков Дмитрий Юрьевич () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
