Proposal: automatic creation of source archives

Bug #1820677 reported by Anton Shepelev
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Launchpad itself
Triaged
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

I find it a nuisance that the latest revision of the main branch in not easily downloadable as a single archive. For many small and simple projects this is a sufficient release model, saving the developer the creation and upload of a source archive after every update of the source. In Github, for example, this function is within two clicks from the project's title page:

1. Click "Clone or Download",
2. Click "Download ZIP".

In Launchpad, however, merely to browse the Git source the user has to:

1. Click on the "Code" tab,
2. Click "Browse the code",
3. Click "Tree".

This path is longer and less obvious. Some visitors simply fail to find it, forcing the developer manually to manage source archives in parallel with the repository, whereas the system can do it for them.

Anton Shepelev (ant222)
description: updated
Revision history for this message
Anton Shepelev (ant222) wrote :

Fix a typo.

description: updated
Colin Watson (cjwatson)
tags: added: feature git lp-code ui
Changed in launchpad:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Triaged
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