Super Project Request

On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 09:18:19PM -0000, Duncan McGreggor wrote:
> The Twisted community would like to establish a presence of
> Twisted-based software projects on Launchpad. We've created a new
> project called "tx" that we'd like to be a super project that anyone
> can set their own project as belonging to (with the understanding, of
> course, that it depends on Twisted).

Hmm. I don't quite understand what you want here -- is it a project
group? If so, do you know that projects can't be "converted" to project
groups?
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Christian Robottom Reis | http://async.com.br/~kiko/ | [+55 16] 3376 0125

Hey Christian, let me give you some more context:

If you go to a project's page on launchpad (for which you have edit privs) and click the "Change details" link, there is a "Part of" field. It has the following description:

'Super-project. In Launchpad, we can setup a special "project group" that is an overarching initiative that includes several related projects. For example, the Mozilla Project produces Firefox, Thunderbird and Gecko. This information is used to group those projects in a coherent way. If you make this project part of a group, the group preferences and decisions around bug tracking, translation and security policy will apply to this project.'

We want others to have the ability to set their projects as belonging to the "tx" super-project...

Is my request more clear now?

Not entirely. I see you've registered https://edge.launchpad.net/tx and even associated a branch to it. This is a project, not a project group. That's an important distinction, and one can't be converted into another. So the questions I have are:

  - What would you like done to the 'tx' project and its branch? Should I disable them or should I rename the project?
  - Alternatively, do you want the existing 'tx' project made part of a project group with a different name?

Hrm, I'm starting to see... So I needed to have created a project group? Or is that something that you would have had to do?

As for 'tx' and branch: can we delete them and start over? I'd like the project group to be named 'tx'.

Christian, at the risk of further complicating things, I've created a team called 'tx-community' -- what's the best way to associate this with the project group?

Ideally, I'd like people who contribute branches to tx sub-projects to be automatically in the tx-community team. If that functionality doesn't exist in launchpad, I'd like the tx project group to be part of that team (or the team to be part of the tx project group, whichever direction the relationship goes).

Thanks!

Thanks Christian Reis, that solved my question.