Launchpad should make tarballs of branches available for download
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Launchpad itself |
Triaged
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
What happens:
If a developer creates a project and then pushes a trunk branch to it, they don't get a "Download this" button on the front page. They could get that button (which is very useful to have for project where people aren't interested in getting the code using bzr) by adding a download file, but that requires a release to be created, even if they're not ready to release code yet.
What should / could happen:
If a project has a trunk branch registered but no releases or download files, Launchpad should build a tarball of that trunk branch and offer it for download via the project overview page. This download file would be superseded by any releases with download files attached (or could be offered alongside any releases with download files).
This would be a nice feature, because it removes the need for the user to generate a tarball, add a release and then upload the tarball (especially since that's quite a complex and hard-to-discover process - see bug 161187).
Changed in launchpad: | |
importance: | Wishlist → Low |
+1 for no manual creation of tarballs.