Gardening the ZTK presence in Launchpad

I wanted to let the zope-dev community know a bit about what Christian Theune and I have been doing this week. We have done a fair bit of tidying for the ZTK projects on Launchpad

Here is what we have managed to do:

  • Each ZTK package is now a separate Launchpad project, under the umbrella of the 'zopetoolkit' project group:

    https://launchpad.net/zopetoolkit/

    I did some minimal branding (the circle Z logo) across the ZTK projects; Christian updated the metadata on them, including fixing up descriptinons and adding PyPI download links.

  • Each of those projects has bug tracking turned on. You can drill down into any of them from the "umbrella" page and click the "Bugs" tab at the top. You can also see an overview for the whole ZTK:

    https://bugs.launchpad.net/zopetoolkit

  • I did a bit of "Augean stable shoveling" in the Zope3 tracker, moving bugs which were obviously tied to one of the ZTK projects into the appropriate project, and leaving behind a "wontfix" in the Zope3 project (since we're not making new Zope3 releases, we can't be fixing bugs there). I left behind about 70 bugs which are tied up with packages whcih don't yet have a real home.

    At this point, there are significant sets of bugs to be tackled in many of the ZTK projects: I'm hoping that having them grouped together that way will enable folks to focus on getting a number of bugs for a given project closed quickly, as in at a bug day.

  • Charlie Clarke put together a script which polls Launchpad for "languishing" bugs for a project. I hacked on it a bit, allowing running the report against the 'zopetoolkit' project group, etc.:

    http://svn.zope.org/zope.bugchecker/trunk

    I am attaching a copy of the report for the ZTK projects.

  • I requested that the Launchpad folks set up mirrored imports of the SVN trunks for all the ZTK projects (some were already being imported, some aren't yet done). Each project's branch can now be checked out using a nicely mnemonic bzr command, e.g.:

    $ bzr branch lp:zope.interface

    You can drill down to a project, and click the "Branches" tab to see any branches (most have only the one trunk branch). You can also see an overview of all the ZTK branches:

    https://code.launchpad.net/zopetoolkit

    I am hopeful that having the code easily branchable with a DVCS will lower the barrier to contributing at something like a bug day, for instance.

Enjoy!