Deleting or editing one of my branch redirects to the wrong place

[Barry Warsaw]

I visit one of my branches, such as https://code.edge.launchpad.net/~barry/launchpad/372773-noteam because I want to delete the branch. I click on the trash can, and then confirm the deletion by clicking on the Delete button.

When the operation is completed, I'm left on the https://code.edge.launchpad.net/launchpad page, i.e. the project page, when I really should be left on the https://code.edge.launchpad.net/~barry page.

[Barry Warsaw (barry)]

Similarly, if I edit the status of said branch, I end up on the branch's page once the edit is complete, however there's no easy path back to code/~barry. I'm left in the Launchpad context, so clicking on the [Code] tab sends me to Launchpad's code page, while clicking on [Barry Warsaw] gets me to my own overview page. It's several clicks then to get back to where I wanted to be (and where I came from).

[Tim Penhey (thumper)]

Unfortunately the code isn't psychic. Since branches effectively have two
contexts, the owner and the associated target (project or source package), we
have to choose where to send the user back to when the branch is deleted.
Unless we have some form of session history to tell us where the user came
from, we have chosen to go back to the target location. This is more
consistent with the navigation that is now associated with branches.

[Paul Hummer (rockstar)]

This also bugs me, but I would say what Tim said. :)

[Jonathan Lange (jml)]

So why isn't this "wontfix"?

[Curtis Hovey (sinzui)]

I want to remind everyone that Edwin did write the RedriectMixin to solve cases like this. It is used in many places.