New Launchpad feature: Diff between Sid and Oneiric

[Julian Edwards]

On Thursday 16 June 2011 13:46:41 Scott Kitterman wrote:
> On Thursday, June 16, 2011 01:25:05 AM Steve Kowalik wrote:
> > On 16/06/11 16:11, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> > > This new page still offers substantially less functionality than
> > > MoM/grab-merge.  If you want to mark merges as in progress or leave
> > > merge related notes for other developers, MoM is the place to do that.
> > 
> > Then file bugs! And please tag them 'derivation'.
> 
> If it's a goal of the Launchpad team to have this be suitable to replace
> MoM then rather than me file stacks of bugs it would probably be a more
> useful use of everyone's time for whoever in the Launchpad team is driving
> this to go look at MoM and see what's missing.
> 
> Just to get you started though, it apparently needs to be faster if one
> wants to load a single page with a lot of packages.  See OOPS-1993DY5 for
> details.

Congratulations on getting the first OOPS!  The page normally loads in 2 
seconds or less so I suspect you were just unlucky to hit a busy period.

Let me clarify - this feature is NOT intended to replace MoM, at least not 
yet.  The primary focus is to help OEMs and Linaro.  We've released this beta 
as a means to get some useful feedback from people who know more than we do 
about building a distribution.  I also hope it's actually useful to someone.

We will add a syncing button next week as well, which will let anyone who can 
normally upload a package just sync it right in the UI with no upload needed.

Thanks for any feedback guys.