Comment 1 for bug 79492

To clarify: you suggest displaying this badge in branch listings, right?

Sounds like a good thing. But in some cases, the error is expected. For example the import is expected not to work (restricted svn, non-main CVS, etc.) or the mirroring is expected not to work (restricted access, bogus branch).

Expected failures occur when Launchpad is used as a simple registry.

Expected import failures can be marked by providing a UI to set importstatus to DONTSYNC (currently, I set this by poking directly into the DB).

Expected mirror failures are harder. If it is a mirror (non-upload, non-import) branch, for which no data was ever mirrored, it should be possible to set a simple "dont-mirror" flag. If some data was mirrored, it's not clear whats should be done. For upload and import branch, the dont-mirror flag does not make sense.

Regardless, we could display this badge on branches without blocking a way to indicate expected failures.