[Ubuntu-l10n-eng] Prank: Ubuntu English (US Fargo) Translators

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

A number of you may have received an e-mail titled "Launchpad: Your membership 
status on team Ubuntu English (US Fargo) Translators was changed". The 
ubuntu-l10n-en-gb and ubuntu-l10n-en-au teams were added as a prank to the 
ubuntu-l10n-en-us-fargo team. Unfortunately, this is currently allowed by 
Launchpad. The bug is chronicled here:

  https://launchpad.net/products/launchpad/+bug/53637

Unfortunately, this prank was not harmless. When I initially applied for a 
ubuntu-l10n-eng mailing list, I was rejected because of our membership of 
this group. Fortunately, after an objection from myself, the mail server 
admin recognised the bug and granted us the list.

Following a discussion on #launchpad, I managed to have both the 
ubuntu-l10n-en-gb and ubuntu-l10n-en-au teams removed from 
ubuntu-l10n-en-us-fargo. However, there is currently nothing preventing it 
from happening again.


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Sridhar Dhanapalan
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