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Less Junk for personal branches
Currently, personal branches are of the form lp:~stevenk/+junk/foo.
Contact: StevenK
On Launchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/147407
Rationale
No real reason to do this now, aside from 'no time like the present'. This allows all of our users that make use of personal branches to have confidence that we are professional about handling their data.
Stakeholders
Everyone, I hope!
User stories
$STORY_NAME
As a developer I want to trust Launchpad isn't treating my personal branches as junk so that I can have faith in them.
As a user I want to trust the data a developer has pushed into their personal branch so that ...
Constraints and Requirements
Must
The ability to work with whatever the new name is (Be it +personal, p, or whatever) and legacy +junk URLs.
Nice to have
A transition plan off +junk so we can stop supporting it at some $FUTURE_POINT.
Must not
What MUST it not do?
Out of scope
The ability to move personal branches from the null pillar to a project.
Success
How will we know when we are done?
How will we measure how well we have done?
Thoughts?
Put everything else here. Better out than in.
