Things to graph for package-of-the-day work

[Tim Penhey]

On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:13:49 Barry Warsaw wrote:
> On Nov 16, 2009, at 8:02 PM, Jonathan Lange wrote:
> > In fact, you'd probably know better than I: If Launchpad had access to
> > the branch for a source package and the branch for its latest
> > upstream, what could we do that would help the average Ubuntu
> > developer?
> 
> Something that occurred to me this morning.
> 
> As an upstream maintainer
> I want Launchpad to automatically create a branch and apply a patch
> sitting in a bug report, linking the bug report to this automatic branch
> So that I can review and merge it easily if it makes sense and applies
> cleanly, or reject the patch if it does not.
> 
> -Barry

Yes, we have talked about this exact use case.  It is on the cards :)