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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.