Comment 10 for bug 147407

On Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:08:10 Martin Pool wrote:
> Did this actually get onto the list?
>
> I think this bug has a fair point: we want to encourage people to create
> real projects when that makes sense. However:
>
> * Not all useful branches are real projects.
> * Even branches that are eventually going to become projects may have code
> before the project is registered, and people want a place to put that.
> Creating a project object requires some amount of work and commitment and
> people might not want to go through that up front.
>
> We do have some experience that branches fall in both those categories;
> we could look at other +junk branches for more.
>
> Using +user would be a small fix.

Although we'd have to keep a +junk redirect for all those remembered
locations.

> Alternatively we could make a larger
> change to just put branches directly under the person; that should be
> done with a view to Launchpad's overall namespace model.

I don't think this is likely. We need to be able to discriminate between a
project and a branch name.

  https://code.launchpad.net/~poolie/bzr

We can't use this as a "junk" branch name as it already goes somewhere else,
so I think we should keep a namespace discriminator like +junk or +user.

> And that also connects to the idea of doing team branches.

There can be team junk branches now (or at least you should be able to).

Tim