Give quick summary of recipe syntax near recipe field
Bug #670475 reported by
Jonathan Lange
on 2010-11-03
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Launchpad itself |
High
|
Tim Penhey | ||
Bug Description
Being asked to enter a recipe into a big box is scary. It would be nice if the recipe field gave a quick summary of the recipe syntax. This would help the user to debug any error messages they get from submitting the recipe.
Related branches
lp:~thumper/launchpad/recipe-syntax
- Curtis Hovey (community): Approve (code) on 2010-11-25
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Diff: 360 lines (+230/-15)8 files modifiedMakefile (+3/-0)
lib/lp/app/browser/configure.zcml (+8/-0)
lib/lp/app/browser/launchpadform.py (+32/-0)
lib/lp/app/browser/tests/test_launchpadform.py (+66/-0)
lib/lp/app/templates/launchpad-form.pt (+18/-12)
lib/lp/code/browser/sourcepackagerecipe.py (+11/-3)
lib/lp/code/help/recipe-syntax.html (+91/-0)
lib/lp/code/templates/sourcepackagerecipe-new.pt (+1/-0)
| Tim Penhey (thumper) wrote : | #1 |
| Paul Hummer (rockstar) wrote : | #2 |
I disagree that this is really a bug once thumper's recipe-help branch gets fixed. We're linking to the help wiki documentation at the top of the creation form. I think that this should be enough.
| Jonathan Lange (jml) wrote : | #3 |
I think it's worth trying. The recipe help is good, but it would be nice having a cheat sheet near the recipe field.
I guess recipe help + good error messages from bzr-builder could conceivably make this bug wontfix.
Tim Penhey (thumper)
on 2010-11-18
| Changed in launchpad-code: | |
| status: | Triaged → In Progress |
| assignee: | nobody → Tim Penhey (thumper) |
Fixed in stable r11995 <http://
| Changed in launchpad-code: | |
| milestone: | none → 10.12 |
| tags: | added: qa-needstesting |
| Changed in launchpad-code: | |
| status: | In Progress → Fix Committed |
Tim Penhey (thumper)
on 2010-11-30
| tags: |
added: qa-ok removed: qa-needstesting |
Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
on 2010-12-08
| Changed in launchpad-code: | |
| status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
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We could look to add some popup help for this, do you think that this is sufficient?
We don't want too much noise there.