The existence of such a "project" is a bug

[K. Deniz Ogut]

Today I saw an announcement on RSS feed of "Announce Launchpad" titled "This is an announcement" and with the body as follows: "This is the body of text of the announcement.": https://launchpad.net/lplearn/+announcement/6854

Is it a joke? Vandalism? Does tyhe user Chris Wilson ( https://launchpad.net/~notgary ) know what he is doing?

Is it reproducable: At the moment, when you hit that URL, yes.
What expected: Not to see such things.

[Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey)]

What RSS url did you discover this on?

[K. Deniz Ogut (kdenizogut)]

As I wrote: https://launchpad.net/lplearn/+announcement/6854 Hmmm...url of the main page: https://launchpad.net/+announcements That thing It is still on the list of the recent RSS feed.

[Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey)]

This doesn't look like a joke or vandalism, just a user creating a project and testing the announce feature. Perhaps Chris might want to use the launchpad staging server for this kind of thing in future so 'test' messages don't appear in amongst 'real' announcements, but I see no major issue here.

https://staging.launchpad.net/

[Chris Wilson (notgary-deactivatedaccount)]

Wow, sorry for the confusion there. As the project page said, it was just me
messing around with the features and seeing what happened when I clicked on
things. I didn't realise that every project was connected to the front page
in some way, and that I would mess around with anyone noticing.

I've deleted the branch and will move to staging.launchpad.net for the time
being. Again, apologies.

On 2 October 2010 23:51, Alan Pope <email address hidden> wrote:

> This doesn't look like a joke or vandalism, just a user creating a
> project and testing the announce feature. Perhaps Chris might want to
> use the launchpad staging server for this kind of thing in future so
> 'test' messages don't appear in amongst 'real' announcements, but I see
> no major issue here.
>
> https://staging.launchpad.net/
>
> ** Changed in: communitycouncil
> Status: New => Invalid
>
> ** Changed in: lplearn
> Status: New => Invalid
>
> --
> The existence of such a "project" is a bug
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/653823
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>
> Status in Ubuntu Community Council: Invalid
> Status in Launchpad Test: Invalid
>
> Bug description:
> Today I saw an announcement on RSS feed of "Announce Launchpad" titled
> "This is an announcement" and with the body as follows: "This is the body of
> text of the announcement.":
> https://launchpad.net/lplearn/+announcement/6854
>
> Is it a joke? Vandalism? Does tyhe user Chris Wilson (
> https://launchpad.net/~notgary ) know what he is doing?
>
> Is it reproducable: At the moment, when you hit that URL, yes.
> What expected: Not to see such things.
>
>
>