Warn users about getting readonly launchpad transports

John Arbash Meinel john at arbash-meinel.com
Thu Mar 13 21:21:29 GMT 2008


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Martin Pool wrote:
> On 14/03/2008, Martin Albisetti <argentina at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 8:16 PM, James Westby <jw+debian at jameswestby.net> wrote:
>>  > Hi,
>>  >
>>  >  Does anyone think the attached patch is a good idea?
>>
>>
>> It seems like a good step forward, although I'd personally try and
>>  send the warning only on write transports, as it might be annoying for
>>  the users who use that just to checkout/branch stuff.
> 
> I believe the problem is that at the code level we don't know whether
> the user is going to write to it or not until after the redirection
> has been done.  (And indeed, they may be getting a checkout but later
> wanting to write to it.)
> 
>>  Anyhow, it's a step forward  :)
> 
> +1, I agree, though as Aaron recently touched this redirector it could
> be good to check with him too.
> 
> James, please put [merge] in your subject line (even if you're not
> totally sure it should merge) so that BB will track it.  I actually
> think it should track all patches; the number of things that look like
> patches but are not intended to merge is pretty negligible.
> 

Well, we get a reasonable amount of patches for other bzr projects (bzr
plugins mostly, and not so much for bzr-gtk since they have their own
mailing list now.) I know Aaron doesn't like having to BB:reject the
patches that aren't for bzr.dev.

John
=:->

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