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The Launchpad Answer Tracker
============================
Launchpad has an 'Answer Tracker' built in to it. So you can have your
community answers user questions about any upstream application, or any
distribution.
Products
--------
Creating a new question is possible directly from the main page of a
product. Users simply click the 'Ask a question' buttion.
>>> user_browser.open('http://launchpad.dev/firefox')
>>> user_browser.getLink('Ask a question').click()
>>> print user_browser.title
Ask a question about...
There is also an 'Ask a question' link on the Bugs home page of the
product:
>>> user_browser.open('http://bugs.launchpad.dev/firefox')
>>> user_browser.getLink('Ask a question').click()
>>> print user_browser.title
Ask a question about...
The list of all the currently active questions for the product is
available from the 'Answers' facet.
>>> browser.open('http://launchpad.dev/firefox')
>>> browser.getLink('Answers').click()
>>> soup = find_main_content(browser.contents)
>>> print soup.first('h1').renderContents()
Questions for Mozilla Firefox
>>> browser.getLink('Firefox loses focus and gets stuck').url
'.../firefox/+question/4'
There is also an 'Ask a question' link to ask a new question.
>>> browser.getLink('Ask a question').url
'http://answers.launchpad.dev/firefox/+addquestion'
There are links to some common listing of questions:
>>> browser.getLink('Open').url
'.../firefox/+questions?...'
>>> browser.getLink('Answered').url
'.../firefox/+questions?...'
>>> browser.getLink('My questions').url
'.../firefox/+myquestions'
Information on a particular question can be seen by browsing to the
question page.
>>> browser.getLink('Problem showing the SVG demo on W3C site').click()
>>> print browser.title
Question #2 : ...
>>> print find_main_content(browser.contents).first('h1').renderContents()
Problem showing the SVG demo on W3C site
Distributions
-------------
Distributions have an 'Ask a question' link on the front page:
>>> user_browser.open('http://launchpad.dev/ubuntu')
>>> user_browser.getLink('Ask a question').click()
>>> print user_browser.title
Ask a question about...
As well as on the Bugs facet home page:
>>> user_browser.open('http://bugs.launchpad.dev/ubuntu')
>>> user_browser.getLink('Ask a question').click()
>>> print user_browser.title
Ask a question about...
The distribution home page also has a link to the 'Answers' facet:
>>> browser.open('http://launchpad.dev/ubuntu')
>>> browser.getLink('Answers').url
'http://answers.launchpad.dev/ubuntu'
>>> browser.getLink('Answers').click()
>>> print browser.title
Questions : Ubuntu
>>> browser.getLink('Ask a question')
<Link...>
On that facet, we will find the same common listings:
>>> browser.getLink('Open').url
'.../ubuntu/+questions?...'
>>> browser.getLink('Answered').url
'.../ubuntu/+questions?...'
>>> browser.getLink('My questions').url
'.../ubuntu/+myquestions'
Distribution Source packages
----------------------------
On a source package, the 'Ask a question' link is accessible through the
Answers facet.
>>> browser.open('http://launchpad.dev/ubuntu/+source/evolution')
>>> browser.getLink('Answers').url
'http://answers.launchpad.dev/ubuntu/+source/evolution'
>>> browser.getLink('Answers').click()
>>> print browser.title
Questions : ...evolution... package : Ubuntu
>>> browser.getLink('Ask a question').url
'.../ubuntu/+source/evolution/+addquestion'
As are the common listings:
>>> browser.getLink('Open').url
'.../ubuntu/+source/evolution/+questions?...'
>>> browser.getLink('Answered').url
'.../ubuntu/+source/evolution/+questions?...'
>>> browser.getLink('My questions').url
'.../ubuntu/+source/evolution/+myquestions'
The 'Answers' facet is also available on the distribution source package
page:
>>> browser.open('http://launchpad.dev/ubuntu/+source/mozilla-firefox')
>>> browser.getLink('Answers').url
'http://answers.launchpad.dev/ubuntu/+source/mozilla-firefox'
>>> browser.getLink('Answers').click()
>>> browser.title
'Questions : \xe2\x80\x9cmozilla-firefox\xe2\x80\x9d package : Ubuntu'
>>> browser.getLink('Ask a question').url
'.../ubuntu/+source/mozilla-firefox/+addquestion'
>>> browser.getLink('Open').url
'.../ubuntu/+source/mozilla-firefox/+questions?...'
>>> browser.getLink('Answered').url
'.../ubuntu/+source/mozilla-firefox/+questions?...'
>>> browser.getLink('My questions').url
'.../ubuntu/+source/mozilla-firefox/+myquestions'
ProjectGroups
-------------
ProjectGroups also have the 'Latest questions' portlet and the 'Ask a
question' button on their overview page.
>>> user_browser.open('http://launchpad.dev/mozilla')
>>> questions = find_tag_by_id(
... user_browser.contents, 'portlet-latest-questions')
>>> print extract_text(questions).encode('ASCII', 'backslashreplace')
All questions
Latest questions
Problemas de Impress\xe3o no Firefox ...
Newly installed plug-in doesn't seem to be used ...
Firefox loses focus and gets stuck ...
Problem showing the SVG demo on W3C site ...
Firefox cannot render Bank Site ...
>>> user_browser.getLink('Ask a question').click()
>>> print user_browser.title
Ask a question about...
Persons
-------
The 'Answers' facet link will display a page listing all the questions
involving a person.
>>> browser.open('http://launchpad.dev/~name16')
>>> browser.getLink('Answers').url
'http://answers.launchpad.dev/~name16'
>>> browser.getLink('Answers').click()
>>> print browser.title
Questions : Foo Bar
>>> print find_main_content(browser.contents).first('h1').renderContents()
Questions for Foo Bar
>>> browser.getLink('Slow system').url
'.../ubuntu/+question/7'
# One of them is not on this batch, so we'll have to first go to the next
# batch.
>>> browser.getLink('Next').click()
>>> browser.getLink('Firefox loses focus').url
'.../firefox/+question/4'
Accessing a question directly
-----------------------------
You can access any question by its ID using the URL
http://answers.launchpad.dev/questions/<id>. This URL will redirect to
the proper context where the question can be found:
>>> browser.open('http://answers.launchpad.dev/questions/1')
>>> print browser.url
http://answers.launchpad.dev/firefox/+question/1
>>> print find_main_content(browser.contents).find('h1').renderContents()
Firefox cannot render Bank Site
Asking for a non-existent question or an invalid ID will still raise a
404 though:
>>> browser.open('http://answers.launchpad.dev/questions/255')
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
NotFound: ...
>>> browser.open('http://answers.launchpad.dev/questions/bad_id')
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
NotFound: ...
Also If you access a question through the wrong context, you'll be
redirected to the question in the proper context. (For example, this is
useful after a question was retargeted.)
>>> browser.open('http://answers.launchpad.dev/ubuntu/+question/1')
>>> print browser.url
http://answers.launchpad.dev/firefox/+question/1
It also works with pages below that URL:
>>> browser.open(
... 'http://answers.launchpad.dev/ubuntu/+question/1/+history')
>>> print browser.url
http://answers.launchpad.dev/firefox/+question/1/+history
But again, an invalid ID still raises a 404:
>>> browser.open('http://answers.launchpad.dev/ubuntu/+question/255')
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
NotFound: ...
>>> browser.open(
... 'http://answers.launchpad.dev/ubuntu/+question/bad_id')
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
NotFound: ...
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