This section contains the story cards for the Launchpad Registry. Completed stories are moved to the VersionThreeDotO/Registry/StoryCardsArchive

Registry epics and their stories

These stories are understood and have been estimated.

Epic: Project management

Creating and maintaining a project is too hard. It is not clear how to create and organise a project as the owner wants. It is not possible to see that the project is setup as the owner intends.

Unneeded data can be removed from the models to reduce th clutter of information. Project creation should be easier and faster by adopting common patterns to organise a project. The roles teams play in a project must be obvious to new contributors as well as project officials.

SFTP uploads for releases

As a project driver,
I want upload large files reliably;
so that I don't need to make repeated attempts because HTTP is unreliable.

• Story Points: 20
  Notes:

  • Work around problems with HTTP posts of large files.

Merging projects

As a Registry Administrator,
I want want to merge a duplicate project with the real project;
so that there is a single definitive location for an upstream project.

• Story Points: 13
  bug:https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/110237
  Notes:

  • Being able to merge two separate projects, see bug 135026 and bug 131933.
  • This may depend upon project-aliases. An alias may be wanted to preserve
    • the duplicate project name.
  • What information, if any should be preserved from the duplicate?
    • The real project should not be changed
    • By replacing the duplicate project with the real project, bugs,
      • questions, blueprints, code, packages, etc will be assigned to the true project.

Project creation and disclosure

As a LP administrator,
I want to make sure that newly created projects are not visible on the home page and searches until I approve them;
so that I can prevent bogus projects from appearing on LP

• Story Points: 8
  Notes:

  • Change project active flag to a status flag

    • Will probably want to rename PillarName.active to PillarName.status as well

  • UI notification when the project is in the NEW state
  • Add 'no-index' meta tag for new project pages
  • Every place that filters on ACTIVE must also filter on NEW
  • Change projects/+review-licenses to support new project review. This will include a rename of the page.
  • User can use the project right away.

Placeholder product registration

As a Launchpad user
I want to be able to quickly register a new project which I'm not the owner of and know little about;
so that I can send bug reports upstream

• Story Points: 8
  Notes:

  • Collect the minimum information to create a project.
  • Indicate that the project is a place holder that can be claimed.

  • See drive-thru-product-creation

Link PPAs to projects

As a project owner,
I want to mark a PPA as the official repo;
so that users can easily get the official packages.

• Story Points: 5
  Notes:

  • Allow an upstream project to say "this is my official PPA"
  • Deliverables:
    • A schema change linking the project to the PPA.
    • A vocabulary of PPAs for the official PPA field.
    • Display the widget in the edit project page.
    • Display the "Official PPA:" label with a link to the +archive page.
  • The challenge is creating a vocabulary of PPAs associated with himself and the teams he is a member of.
    • Barry suggests adding a widget to every PPA that has a list of all
      • the projects the person is a admin of. This does not seem natural since the I could browse Launchpad to any projects PPA and claim that it supplies my project's official pacakges.

Link teams and people to projects for informational purposes

As a user,
I want know a project's goals and how it is organised,
so that I can get involved.

• Story Points: 3
  bug: Not obvious how to get involved with a project
  Notes:

  • This story depends upon the [Start the project registration process]
    • story. Allow owners to create teams to play roles in the project hierarchy.
  • A page that lists the teams associated with a project and the roles they play
    • Each team is linked so that the user can join the page.
    • Does each team need description or statement of purpose?
  • There are two kinds of links to this page:
    • [View the project organisation]
    • [Join the project]
  • If a graphic presentation is needed for the team org chart more story points are required.

File releases download counters

As a Launchpad user interested in a particular downloadable file,
I can see how many times the file has been downloaded over its lifetime;
so that I can judge the popularity of the file.

• Story Points: 5
  Notes:

  • Done using a script that processes the access log.
  • Could be done by by updating the database on every GET. But supposedly the latter technique has been tried before and ran into performance problems.
  • Should the database update be done within Launchpad or within the librarian? (The earlier attempt did it within the librarian.)

Epic: Project Planning

Project planing is a mess. Projects are not using series, milestones and release consistently. Even well planned projects have made mistakes, in part because the information is poorly presented.

The model of series, milestones, and releases must be fixed so that their relationship is clear. Launchpad must use the objects consistently even when offering users features that allow them to do several operations in a single step. A timeline or diagram is needed to present the project's plan. The timeline should be interactive so that the driver of the project can see what he id doing and has done.

Making releases from milestones

As a project maintainer,
I want to mark a milestone as "released", so
the release can be done (and end-users can download files, look at the changelog, etc).

• Story Points: 3
  Released: 2.1.10
  Notes:

  • Record the relationship.

  • Bug 174468: Solving the release/milestone split

Branching series

As a project maintainer,
I want to branch the trunk series;,
so that I can make a stable release and create further point releases in the future.

• Story Points: 3
  Notes:

  • Create a series.
  • Save the series from which it was created.
  • Provide any visual indication that the series was branched from another.
  • Text mockup:

      - Trunk (* branch into a new series)

      - Trunk (* branch into a new series)
         - 1.3 (* branch into a new series)

      Wee Project
      - Trunk

      Kiwi
      - Trunk (currently at 3.X)
         - 1.X
         - 2.X

      The Linux Kernel
      - Trunk
         - 2.2
         - 2.4
         - 2.6
            - 2.6.20
            - 2.6.21

Moving releases from one series to another

As a project administrator,
I can change which series a particular release belongs to;
so I can move a release from trunk to one of my existing series, or fix misclassifications.

• Story Points: 1
  Notes:

  • This cannot be done until after milestones can be turned into releases; milestones will be the only provider of series information.

Packaging link population

As a upstream project tracker,
I want product release packages automatically linked to distribution sourcepackges;
so that I do not need search the tarball releases and do it myself.

• Story Points: 20
  Notes:

  • Use our tarball imports to detect packaging links and modified orig.tar.gzs
    • Soyuz receives source packages via the upload path
    • Soyuz unpacks those source packages and for "normal" packages, inside them are .orig.tar.gzs
    • Our productreleasefinder script -- when it works -- pulls in tarballs and creates series and releases based on their filenames.
    • Some of those tarballs will be identical to a package's orig
      • When they are, add a packaging link between that series and the sourcepackage's series.
    • However, where does the "detect modified org.tar.gz" come in to the equation? If the orig.tar.gz changes, that means there's a new upstream release generally.

Epic: Messaging

Launchpad can be a better tool for communication between users and teams. Launchpad must reconcile the desire for privacy (hidden email addresses) with the need to send messages. Users are often confused as why they receive emails from launchpad, nor do they know how to manage them. The value that mailing lists provide is in part undermined by the fact that teams convey privileges--users cannot subscribe to lists for teams that they are no members of.

Launchpad needs a feature that allows a user to see and manage his email subscriptions. Users need a means to contact each other, even when their email addresses are hidden. Decouple the requirement to be a member of a team so that users can read emails. Community members with a good standing should be permitted to post to anything on Launchpad.

Members contacting members

As a launchpad team member, I want to contact all the launchpad team members, to inform them of an important event.

• Story Points: 2
  Note:

  • All members get the email, so the teams mailing list will not be used
  • Link title must state who is being conacted (the whole team)
  • Update the headers and footers of the message

Non-members contacting team admin

As a user, I want to contact the fnord team, To as a question about what they do.

• Story Points: 2
  Note:

  • The email goes to the team admin who can choose to reply or delegate the reply to another team member.
  • by restricting who gets the email we are:
    • Reducing the opportunity to send send spam.
    • Reducing the opportunity to leak a membership in a private membership teams.
  • Link title must state who is being conacted (the whole team)
  • Update the headers and footers of the message

Personal Subscription Page

As a LP user,
I want to have a single page with all my email subscriptions (lists, bugs, answers, branches, etc.) with a link to the appropriate unsubscription page;
so that I can individually manage (start and stop) each email source

• Story Points: 20
  Notes:

  • Displaying team subscription.

Let people lurk on mailing lists

As a Launchpad user,
I want to be able to subscribe to a list even if I'm not a member of the team,
so that I passively follow discussion of projects I'm interested in.

• Story Points: 2
  bug: Let people lurk on mailing lists
  Notes:

  • Adjust the query and constraints
  • Little bit of u/i change

Nosy mailing list threads

As a non-subscriber to a list,
I want to receive follow-ups messages to threads that I posted on;
so that I can follow the discussion.

• Story Points: 8
  Notes:

  • Mailman 2.1 doesn't support really that model yet
  • This may depend on lurking.

Vacation

As a LP user,
I want to tell LP that I'm going on "vacation" until a specified date;
so that LP will stop sending me non-urgent emails during that time.

• Story Points: 8
  Notes:

Mailing List Feeds

As a Launchpad user,
I want to subscribe to a feed containing all the latest mailing list messages;
so that I follow the list through my feed reader.

• Story Points: 8
  Notes:

  • Get the messages out of Mailman or capture metadata for each message
  • Display messages using the Feeds API
  • Figure out what text to display for each message

Visibility of mailing list traffic to Launchpad

As a user,
I want know how much traffic a list gets per month,
so that I know how much mail I am committing to read.

• Story Points: 5
  Notes:

  • Need a cronscript to generate stats daily, or weekly.
    • Numbers are generated for each mailing list
    • The numbers can be generated from via:
      • Mhonarc's archive
      • Mailman's logs
  • A schema change is needed to store the weekly stats
    • No more than 13 weeks of stats are needed
  • The information can be presented as a portlet/viewlet on the team page.
    • Since users can subscribe to all team mailinglists from their email page, the viewlet is needed there too.

IMAP Archive

As a Launchpad user,
I want to access an IMAP folder containing a mailing list archive;
so that I can read, search, and reply to mailing list messages.

• Story Points: 5
  Notes:

  • Anonymous access.
  • Dovecot can serve the MHonarc mbox archive directly
  • UI.

Persistent mailing list archive urls

As mailing list user,
I want each mailing list message to contain a link to the archived message;
so that I can view the thread on the web.

• Story Points: 0.5
  Notes:

  • Requires MHonarc supports for those URL.

Remotely hosted mailing lists

As a project owner,
I want to run the mailing list on my own server, but get the membership info from Launchpad from the LP API;
so that I can customize the list to my liking.

• Story Points: 13
  Notes:

  • add a 'hosted' flag on IMailingList

  • add an Mailing List API allowing to retrieve the members of the list.
  • Open source queue runner that updates the list using API.
  • All management done through LP.
  • No first post-moderation.
  • Two differences experience for Lists on Page.
  • u/i for posting address and archive link

Epic: Privacy

Users cannot work in teams or projects privately. While membership in a team can be hidden the team, and its activities cannot. It is not possible to hide a project from unprivileged users. Commercial and private groups cannot project their data on Launchpad.

Launchpad must allow users to work in private so that teams and projects can work without exposing their data and or activities to other users.

Create private projects

As a field engineer,
I want a private project that is completely invisible to unauthorized people;
so that our OEM project can operate without any data leakage.

• Story Points: 20
  Notes:

  • Leaking of the project's name may be acceptable.
  • The story points include private teams, which will be broken into separate stories.
    • This needs re-estimation.

Epic: Branded Launchpad (bugs.foo.org)

As a project owner,
I want my project pages to appear at lp.mydomain.org;
so that my user can go to one domain and find everything they need to contribute to my project.

• Story Points: 100
  Notes:

  • Commercial offering?
  • Moderation?
  • Update the apache config?
  • How do users request the redirect? New UI pages?

  • How do we serve JavaScript files with the two domains?

    • icing will have to be served from any domain.
  • Navigation from inside the project needs to point back to Launchpad itself where appropriate.

  • Branded project -> need for project in URL.

  • Mailing lists: tie in to Exim and MHonArc's Apache
  • User expectations: brand also the skin and integrate with Launchpad.

Needs estimating

These stories will be estimated in the weekly planning meeting.

Epic: Project management

Project access stats

As a project owner,
I want to know the total monthly visitors to any page of my project (i.e. the sum of all hits),
so that I can make an informed decision on whether to continue this project, adjust the assigned resources, or discontinue it.

• Story Points: ??
  Notes:

  • HPLIP wants to know this.

  • See the Stu & Curtis: per project webstats discussion for some insight.

Manage project announcements through the webservice API

As a webservice client,
I want to be able to manage my project announcements through the webservice API
so that I can use my preferred tools.

• Story Points: ??
  Notes:

Start the project registration process

As a project owner,
I want to register a project from starting from the front page,
So that I can easily start using launchpad.

• Story Points: ??
  Notes:

Needs definition

These stories are incomplete, not understood, and cannot be estimated.

Epic: Privacy

Private teams

As a field engineer,
I want to create a private team where no one can see anything except the team name and the team owner but no members can be known; it should be a restricted team by default; members of a private team can see the membership list, but no one else can;
so that commercial projects can have teams without exposing their membership.

• Story Points: ??
  Notes:

  • Being able to hide the existence of a team, while still allowing it to be used

Epic: Project management

Guided product registration

As a Launchpad project owner,
I want to be able to easily register my new project which,
so that I can quickly invite others to participate

• Story Points: ??
  Notes:

  • Meet with Martin to break this into smaller stories.

  • product-registration-workflow

Epic Messaging

Subscribe to all messages in all mailing lists by topic

As a Launchpad user,

I want to subscribe to all messages in all mailing lists that match my search terms,
So that I can be informed about conversations happening on a topic of interest.

• Story points: ??
  Notes:

  • This relates to the concept of Launchpad echelons where a user can subscribe to all message generated in launchpad on a topic
  • This is like the saved topic/search feature offered by news sties
    • Google is an example of such a service.
      • The notification happens via web page or RSS
    • While the user is informed, he does not necessarily have rights to reply.