Comment 0 for bug 99994

This is a note to record a sub-optimal user experience.

I just registered a new Launchpad product (testdoc). In order to make 'bzr branch https://launchpad.net/testdoc' work, I was told I needed to link the branch to the default product release series.

My initial thought was "Oh, this is a new product, so there's probably not a release series yet, I'll click on the link that saying 'Register a release series'". I clicked the link, filled in the form, specifying 'trunk' as the name, and then was told that there was already a release series called 'trunk'.

So I went back to the Product Overview page where I saw a "Timeline" section, which has a single item "trunk" with "Releases: none" and "Milestones: none". I'm still not sure what a timeline is in this context, but I guessed that this is the release series.

I then clicked "Change source" (which is the closest thing to 'link to a branch'), and filled out the form, which did what I wanted.

The bug is that it's not clear that a product gets a release series as soon as it's created, nor is it clear how to change that release series.