Branch Relationship Visualisation in Launchpad

Status

• Created: 23/04/05 by MarkShuttleworth
  

• Priority: LowPriority
  

• People: RobWeirLead, RobertCollinsSecond
  

• Contributors: MarkShuttleworth, MatthewPaulThomas
  

• Interested: MartinPool
  

• Status: UduBof, BazaarSpecification, LaunchpadSpecification, SpecElsewhere, BrainDump, MatthewPaulThomasQueue
  

• Depends: BranchMetadata
  

• UduSessions: 3 (1 to discuss, 2 to document)
  

Summary

For a variety of reasons, software developers will want to see the relationships between branches of a product: what they derive from, what derives from them, how often they merge from each other, and so on. Launchpad will use an HTML tree to show basic hierarchy -- which branches are mostly descendants of which other branches. More detailed information about relationships will be shown with an image, regenerated after each merge.

Spec elsewhere

https://wiki.launchpad.canonical.com/BranchRelationshipVisualization