No description field for branches

Bug #373913 reported by Andreas Rütten
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Launchpad itself
Fix Released
Low
Paul Hummer

Bug Description

Today I registered a new branch to a project and I want to add a few words to my branch where I can explain for what purpose I want to use te branch. But there was no whiteboard and no description text field.

It would be very nice if there is the chance to add a little explanation for what a branch will be use.

Tags: lp-code
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Paul Hummer (rockstar) wrote :

Branch summaries and whiteboards were removed from the UI because there were far too many cases where they were in the way more than anything. Launchpad also has many great ways of expressing the intent of a branch (bug-branch and bug-spec links, series branches).

If there is enough interest, I don't mind adding them back.

Changed in launchpad:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Triaged
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Matt Nordhoff (mnordhoff) wrote : Re: [Bug 373913] Re: No description field for branches

I liked those fields, and occasionally made use of them, but I can live
without them. I agree with the reasons for removing them -- they were in
the way far more often than not, and I usually should've filed bugs or
something instead of using them, but there were a couple occasions where
they were genuinely useful.

So, yeah. I'm another person who would be happy if they came back, but I
don't feel too strongly about it.

affects: launchpad → launchpad-code
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Martin Albisetti (beuno) wrote :

So, due to popular demand, let's bring them back, but call them "descriptions", and use the same formatting as for PPAs.

Changed in launchpad-code:
assignee: nobody → Paul Hummer (rockstar)
Revision history for this message
Paul Hummer (rockstar) wrote :

Submitting to ec2test now...

Changed in launchpad-code:
milestone: none → 2.2.5
status: Triaged → In Progress
milestone: 2.2.5 → 2.2.6
Paul Hummer (rockstar)
Changed in launchpad-code:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Paul Hummer (rockstar)
Changed in launchpad-code:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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