Comment 4 for bug 383374

On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Tim Penhey <email address hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, 04 Jun 2009 09:56:09 Jonathan Lange wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 7:50 AM, Martin Albisetti <email address hidden>
> wrote:
>> > Public bug reported:
>> >
>> > Show last modified first
>>
>> I thought we were going to break up the listing by project. What
>> happened to that plan?
>>
>> jml
>
> The issue for me is what to do in edge cases.
>
> Breaking up by user is relatively easy if the user is a "normal developer" who
> works on a (small) number of projects.
>
> What about teams like vcs-imports?

As discussed before, vcs-imports is a pathological case. The current
vcs-imports code page isn't useful, changing to a wildly different
layout will not make it less useful.

> What about a really active packager?

This is an interesting case.

I think it wouldn't be too much of a stretch to collapse all of the
packages with only one branch into a single "Ubuntu" group.

> What about someone who does some packing, but not a lot?
> ...
>

I'm not sure how this would affect the plan to break things up by
project & package.

This bug, however, is about sorting by date. I agree that this is
definitely an incremental improvement over what we have now.

jml