cannot view private branch if you cannot see the private branch it is stacked on

Bug #393566 reported by Jonathan Lange
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This bug affects 7 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Launchpad itself
Fix Released
High
Ian Booth

Bug Description

To see a stacked branch, you must be able to see both the stacked branch and the stacked-on branch. For private branches, this means you must be subscribed to both the stacked branch and the stacked-on branch.

It's very easy to be subscribed only to the stacked branch. This leads to confusion.

I had thought this was fixed by the fix for bug 342467. It turns out though that the fix was specific to the code index page, which is a little disappointing.

Possible solutions
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* When granting access to a stacked branch, grant access to the stacked on branch (but still require access to the stacked on branch to create a stacked branch).

Related branches

Tom Haddon (mthaddon)
tags: added: canonical-losa-lp
Paul Hummer (rockstar)
tags: removed: ui
summary: - Stacking and privacy interact poorly
+ cannot view private branch if you cannot see the private branch it is
+ stacked on
Revision history for this message
Gary Poster (gary) wrote :

See (private) bug 812335, and in particular comment #1.

William Grant (wgrant)
Changed in launchpad:
assignee: nobody → Ian Booth (wallyworld)
William Grant (wgrant)
Changed in launchpad:
assignee: Ian Booth (wallyworld) → nobody
description: updated
Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
tags: added: disclosure privacy-transitions
Revision history for this message
Launchpad QA Bot (lpqabot) wrote :
Changed in launchpad:
assignee: nobody → Ian Booth (wallyworld)
tags: added: qa-needstesting
Changed in launchpad:
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
William Grant (wgrant)
Changed in launchpad:
status: Fix Committed → Triaged
tags: added: bad-commit-15625 qa-bad
Ian Booth (wallyworld)
Changed in launchpad:
status: Triaged → In Progress
Ian Booth (wallyworld)
tags: added: qa-ok
removed: qa-needstesting
Revision history for this message
Launchpad QA Bot (lpqabot) wrote :
tags: added: qa-needstesting
removed: qa-bad qa-ok
Changed in launchpad:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Ian Booth (wallyworld)
tags: added: qa-ok
removed: qa-needstesting
Steve Kowalik (stevenk)
Changed in launchpad:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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