hottest100 (was Re: Bazaar focus for 2.1 and 2.2)

[Curtis Hovey]

On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 11:38 +1100, Jonathan Lange wrote:
> >> So the associating development focus does not seem to have been
> done.
> >> Again, I don't think I have access to actually change any of this
> stuff.
> >> (And obviously neither do you, or you probably would have done
> it. :)
> >
> > Exactly. It will generally need someone in Registry Admin to do it
> for
> > us.
> >
> 
> In general, it's the project "Maintainer" (and maybe the "Driver") who
> can do that. You can find out who this is by looking at the project
> overview page.
> 
> Curtis, is this correct? Do you have any ideas as to how we can safely
> open this up? 

Only the project owner can set the the focus of development.

The project owner and series driver (release manager) can set the series
branch.

I discussed this with Tim. While it may seem intrusive to give Registry
Admins the power to change these, I think we need to keep in mind that
many projects are mirroring upstream; the project is really owned by the
community.

We have a general problem where knowledgeable contributors cannot update
a project because Launchpad made someone else the owner (the owner may
not want to be in that role). Examples include setting the product
release finder, setting the bug tracker, setting the upstream contact,
setting up translations, setting the focus of development (or setting
the branch of focus of development), setting the project license [1]

[1] As the launchpad staff are now Registry Admins, they know owns 800
unlicensed projects (you cannot find them by the Launchpad UI). We want
to invite the community to help set the license.



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