Code review comment for lp:~barry/bzr/609186-shortcuts

On Oct 06, 2010, at 08:59 PM, John A Meinel wrote:

>1) Isn't 'n' already known? (natty). I realize you can't push to it,
>but might as well have it for future.

Good point. Added.

>2) I thought having the short forms was quite useful. "u:foo" is very nice
>and succinct. Any way we could (potentially via configuration) keep that? The
>whole point of having "lp:bzr" is because how much you have to type really
>does matter. lp:ubuntu/maverick/bzr is a whole lot wordier than u:bzr or
>u:m/bzr

A couple of thoughts (I agree, I like the shortcuts too :).

We could support shortcut for the distroseries name independently of the
distro name, thus giving us urls like:

    ubuntu:m/bzr
    ubuntu:n/bzr
    debianlp:l/foo
    debianlp:s/foo

I think it's pretty common to refer to Ubuntu releases by their first letter;
maybe the same is not common for Debian. Anyway 'ubuntu:n/bzr' seems okay to
me, though I still would not oppose adding u: and d: shortcuts.

Either distro or distroseries shortcuts would be easy to add (using the
hard-coded mappings). How do we decide whether to add them back or not?