Launchpad itself

Branch and repository formats on branch pages need explanation

Bug #264730 reported by Matthew Revell
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Bug Description

On a branch page - such as https://code.launchpad.net/~bzr/bzr/trunk - I see that the branch format is "6" and the repository format is "Packs containing knits without subtree support".

While the latter at least has some useful information, "Branch format 6" means nothing to me without looking it up.

We should use the new Launchpad help system to explain what these formats mean.

Tags: help lp-code
Matthew Revell (matthew.revell)
Changed in launchpad:
assignee: nobody → matthew.revell
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Triaged
Changed in launchpad-documentation:
milestone: none → 2.1.10
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Jonathan Lange (jml) wrote :

Related to bug 248900 and bug 250160.

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Matthew Revell (matthew.revell) wrote :

Pushing back to 2.1.11 when I do the code text audit

Changed in launchpad-documentation:
milestone: 2.1.10 → 2.1.11
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Jonathan Lange (jml) wrote :

Matching to Launchpad Documentation status.

Changed in launchpad-bazaar:
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Triaged
Matthew Revell (matthew.revell)
Changed in launchpad-documentation:
milestone: 2.1.11 → 2.1.12
Matthew Revell (matthew.revell)
Changed in launchpad-documentation:
milestone: 2.1.12 → 2.2.2
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Matthew Revell (matthew.revell) wrote :

Wasn't able to get to this in the 2.2.2 cycle and 2.2.3 is already busy with sprints.

Changed in launchpad-documentation:
milestone: 2.2.2 → 2.2.4
Diogo Matsubara (matsubara)
Changed in launchpad-documentation:
milestone: 2.2.4 → 2.2.5
Matthew Revell (matthew.revell)
Changed in launchpad-documentation:
milestone: 2.2.5 → 2.2.6
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Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote :

Doesn't seem to be anything needed for bzr to do here.

Changed in bzr:
status: New → Invalid
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Matthew Revell (matthew.revell) wrote :

Longer review process and subsequent changes for the tour updates pushed this one out of 2.2.6

Changed in launchpad-documentation:
milestone: 2.2.6 → 2.2.7
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Matthew Revell (matthew.revell) wrote :

@Rob -- LP gets its branch format descriptions from bzr, so Tim suggested we might add friendlier descriptions to Bazaar rather than just replace them in LP.

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Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote : Re: [Bug 264730] Re: Branch and repository formats on branch pages need explanation

On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 11:03 +0000, Matthew Revell wrote:
> @Rob -- LP gets its branch format descriptions from bzr, so Tim
> suggested we might add friendlier descriptions to Bazaar rather than
> just replace them in LP.

Well, bzr already *has* friendly descriptions; I'm not sure why you
aren't using them. Or if they aren't friendly enough, patch away :)

-Rob

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Jonathan Lange (jml) wrote :

"Packs containing knits without subtree support" and "Development repository format - rich roots, group compression and chk inventories" perhaps contain too much technical detail for the average user.

Also, I'm no longer sure how this bug is at all bug 248900.

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Matthew Revell (matthew.revell) wrote :

Delayed due to paternity leave

Changed in launchpad-documentation:
milestone: 2.2.7 → 2.2.8
Matthew Revell (matthew.revell)
Changed in launchpad-documentation:
milestone: 2.2.8 → none
Matthew Revell (matthew.revell)
Changed in launchpad-documentation:
status: Triaged → Invalid
assignee: Matthew Revell (matthew.revell) → nobody
importance: Medium → Undecided
tags: added: help
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Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote :

@jml there are docstrings and descriptions in bzrlib.

Changed in launchpad:
importance: Medium → Low
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