Launchpad itself

PPA: should default to sensible/good name (or give example)

Bug #410331 reported by Paul Sladen
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Launchpad itself
Triaged
Low
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Bug Description

If a user wishes to activate a new fangled "PPA" and goes to:

  https://launchpad.net/~myaccount/+activate-ppa

then they are asked for a "Display name", but given no indication of what a good, sensible, default name would look like; Eg. should be "ppa", "myaccount", "ubuntu", "My hot packages"...

Ideally the dialogue should be populated with something sane, or provide a small Example below (I can't give a suggested example in this bug report, otherwise I wouldn't be writing it!).

Even better would be to have the form display what (will be/would be) the predirected displayed URL after creation, so that the user can confirm it looks sensible.

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lp://staging/~dhillon-v10/launchpad/fix-bug-410331
Julian Edwards (community): Needs Fixing
Diff: 21 lines (+9/-2)
1 file modified
lib/lp/soyuz/browser/archive.py (+9/-2)
Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
affects: launchpad → soyuz
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Julian Edwards (julian-edwards) wrote :

We should default it to the original naming style of "PPA named X for Joe Smith"

Changed in soyuz:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Medium
tags: added: ppa trivial ui
Changed in soyuz:
milestone: none → 10.02
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Vikram Dhillon (dhillon-v10) wrote :

@Julian: I changed the default name to "PPA named X for Joe Smith" and pushed a branch :)

Changed in soyuz:
status: Triaged → In Progress
Vikram Dhillon (dhillon-v10)
Changed in soyuz:
assignee: nobody → Vikram Dhillon (dhillon-v10)
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Vikram Dhillon (dhillon-v10) wrote :

@Julian: I updated the branch, what do you think now

Julian Edwards (julian-edwards)
Changed in soyuz:
milestone: 10.02 → none
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Vikram Dhillon (dhillon-v10) wrote :

@Julian: I pushed new code in some time ago, did you ever get a change to look at it, it works nicely now :)

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Julian Edwards (julian-edwards) wrote : Re: [Bug 410331] Re: PPA: should default to sensible/good name (or give example)

On Wednesday 24 March 2010 00:52:40 Vikram Dhillon wrote:
> @Julian: I pushed new code in some time ago, did you ever get a change
> to look at it, it works nicely now :)
>
 Hi - I'll take a look at this when I get some time, thanks for making the
change! Sorry it's taking so long for me to look at.

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Vikram Dhillon (dhillon-v10) wrote :

@Julian: any updates on this?? Its been a while so just checking :)

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Julian Edwards (julian-edwards) wrote :

I'm sorry Vikram, we've all been crazy busy for the last month. I've not forgotten you!

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Vikram Dhillon (dhillon-v10) wrote :

Julian: any updates?? its been over 3 months now :)

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Michael Nelson (michael.nelson) wrote :

Hi Vikram,

Julian is afk for a few days. I just took a look at the diff on your MP and have commented there with the next step :)

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Vikram Dhillon (dhillon-v10) wrote :

I almost forgot about this bug, Michael: I'll write up a test case for this change and push it with the branch :)

Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
Changed in launchpad:
assignee: Vikram Dhillon (dhillon-v10) → nobody
status: In Progress → Triaged
Huw Wilkins (huwshimi)
tags: added: ui-easy
Robert Collins (lifeless)
tags: added: easy
removed: ui-easy
Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
Changed in launchpad:
importance: Medium → Low
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