Launchpad itself

Give quick summary of recipe syntax near recipe field

Bug #670475 reported by Jonathan Lange
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This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Launchpad itself
Fix Released
High
Tim Penhey
Launchpad itself 10.12

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://qastaging/~thumper/launchpad/recipe-syntax
Curtis Hovey (community): Approve (code)
Diff: 360 lines (+230/-15)
8 files modified
Makefile (+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)
Revision history for this message
Tim Penhey (thumper) wrote :

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.

Revision history for this message
Paul Hummer (rockstar) wrote :

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.

Revision history for this message
Jonathan Lange (jml) wrote :

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)
Changed in launchpad-code:
status: Triaged → In Progress
assignee: nobody → Tim Penhey (thumper)
Revision history for this message
Launchpad QA Bot (lpqabot) wrote : Bug fixed by a commit

Fixed in stable r11995 <http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~launchpad-pqm/launchpad/stable/revision/11995>.

Changed in launchpad-code:
milestone: none → 10.12
tags: added: qa-needstesting
Changed in launchpad-code:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Tim Penhey (thumper)
tags: added: qa-ok
removed: qa-needstesting
Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
Changed in launchpad-code:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
michal (kszczot)
Changed in launchpad:
assignee: Tim Penhey (thumper) → michal (kszczot)
Cristian Gonzalez (cristiangsp)
Changed in launchpad:
assignee: michal (kszczot) → Tim Penhey (thumper)
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