Launchpad itself

+junk is a bad label

Bug #387552 reported by Display Name
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Bug Description

Junk: discarded material -- The Free Dictionary.

There should be a better tag to describe non-project branches. A few suggestions:

+misc
+jungle
+branches
+bundles
+code
+orphaned

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Display Name (user340562791542-deactivatedaccount)
description: updated
Display Name (user340562791542-deactivatedaccount)
description: updated
Display Name (user340562791542-deactivatedaccount)
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Matt Nordhoff (mnordhoff) wrote : Re: [Bug 387552] Re: +junk is a bad label

What about:

+misc

?

Display Name (user340562791542-deactivatedaccount)
description: updated
description: updated
Tim Penhey (thumper)
affects: launchpad → launchpad-code
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Tim Penhey (thumper) wrote :

See bug 147407

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Morten Kjeldgaard (mok0) wrote :

+junk is not descriptive and sounds unprofessional, hackerish and stupid.

I find +junk very useful for my own branches that I want to be hosted at Launchpad, but I very much resent that Launchpad labels my software as "junk".

What if I wanted a prospective employer to check out some of my software? Would I refer them to my +junk branches? Probably wouldn't impress them very much. Launchpad should have a neutral and professional wording on the site.

I suggest something like "+user" instead, which also signals that the author does not want those to be part of a project.

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