There is something else that would change... On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 23:16 -0400, Curtis Hovey wrote: > I am considering changing the URL of milestones to allow users to locate > an track releases *before* the are created. I am concern that doing this > will break some scripts that use the beta webservice. > > I want to change the milestone to have the same URL as the release: > <project/+milestone/<milestone> > becomes > <project>/<series>/<milestone> > > Example: > https://edge.launchpad.net/bzr/+milestone/1.15rc1 > could be > https://edge.launchpad.net/bzr/1.15/1.15rc1 > Which is the URL the release will be published at.
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The milestone would supplant the distroseries architecture:
<distro>/<series>/<architecture>
would become
<distro>/<series>/+arch/<architecture>
Example:
https://edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/jaunty/i386
would be
https://edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/jaunty/+arch/i386
Again I think putting milestone under the series is best because it is
consistent for all kinds of series.
[One beer later]
The architecture problems is a little different from the release
problem. There is only a finite number of architectures, and a small
number of distro series. I can easily make architecture and milestone
co-exist because the names are unlikely to ever collide. I can add a
guard that will prevent any distro series milestone from having a name
that is the same as an architecture.
Still, I think this leads to a surprise in the API, because you may
expect a milestone, but get an architecture. Though I cannot think hoe a
script could get architecture name and think it has a milestone name.
So maybe it is okay to not change the distro series architecture URL.
> Will your scripts break if I replace the release with the milestone in
> the URL?
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