$PERSON/+packages is incredibly misleading
Bug #249772 reported by
William Grant
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| Launchpad itself |
Triaged
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High
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
[Footnotes in bug #249129 cover some of these issues]
'Most' shouldn't be capitalised, and it's not always 50 packages.
One might assume that if fewer than 50 packages are listed, fewer than 50 uploads have been made. This is quite false - only SPRs with a PUBLISHED SPP are shown! It's particularly bad now that a DistroSeries' obsolescence alters the publishing state of its SPPs. This is very misleading for uploaders who are no longer active. Their pages will appear to slowly and quite randomly empty, as many uploads will have SPPs in multiple DistroSeries.
| Changed in soyuz: | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
Revision history for this message
| Emmet Hikory (persia) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in soyuz: | |
| importance: | Undecided → High |
| status: | Confirmed → New |
Revision history for this message
| Julian Edwards (julian-edwards) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in soyuz: | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
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From the point of view of someone who routinely uses this page as a mechanism to review contributions by developers, the current UI makes the content of very limited utility. In most cases, it is more useful to review the -changes mail archives, and manually extract package information.
This becomes especially frustrating in the case of superceded packages: if one person generally maintains a package, and someone else sends an upload to address an NBS issue, the general maintainer no longer has the package shown. This can quickly lead to people being contacted about packages they don't understand well, and those who do not having available documentation on launchpad.