On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Gary Poster <[email protected]> wrote: > > On May 17, 2011, at 5:09 AM, Jonathan Lange wrote: > >> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 7:33 PM, Benji York <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 12:48 AM, Brian Murray <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 12:07:02PM -0400, Benji York wrote: >> ... >>>>> There's no single place that lists all your subscriptions, but you don't >>>>> have to find a bug to manage the notifications of a particular pillar. >>>> >>>> This certainly seems to be a list of my subscriptions for multiple >>>> projects: >>> >>> Unfortunately that page is deprecated. That's why there aren't any >>> inbound links to that page (or shouldn't be, let us know if you find >>> any). >> >> Why is it deprecated? > > Deprecated is perhaps the wrong word. I would describe it as "never > released." > > The page was done before yellow squad and without feature flags. The rest of > LP had no link to it. AIUI, this obscurity was intended as a release > mechanism, in lieu of feature flags. > > The page was never deemed ready for release. It is not updated to the new > terminology, and it does not follow the new JS-based UI patterns. Also, to my > knowledge, the design was never user tested. > > We could have removed the obscured page easily enough, but some power users > who knew the secret still found it useful, and we have had plenty of other > work to do, so I have never scheduled the task nor considered it to be of > particular importance. However, since the page is now publicized here, > perhaps we should remove it to prevent user confusion (for instance, none of > the UI the yellow squad did describes subscriptions with multiple "filters"; > we present it as multiple subscriptions). > > As we've said in the past, we wanted to provide this > see-all-your-subscriptions functionality, and it is described in the LEP > ("nice-to-have") and in the user documentation draft that Benji wrote early > on as a design artifact. However, this work should start with a user-tested > design consistent with the rest of our related UI, and I continue to believe > that such a design would result in a rewrite of the current page. >
Thanks, that helps me understand it better. jml _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-users Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-users More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
