Private branch owner cannot unsubscribe someone

[Matthew Revell]

Paolo Garbin reports:

"In a private branch (https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-it-magazine/fcm-it/edizione-fcm-it ) the project-admin can't delete the subscriptions listed at the right.

In this list there are ex project-members, that now not active in our project. We want to remove them from this branch.

The private branch is: https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-it-magazine/fcm-it/edizione-fcm-it"

[Tim Penhey (thumper)]

This is correct.

The ex project-members will no longer be able to write to the team owned branch if they are no longer in the team, however their subscriptions are still valid. If there is a reason for them to not be allowed to see the branch any more, then a question on the launchpad (or launchpad-bazaar) project is needed to remove the branch subscriptions.

[Paolo Garbin (paolettopn)]

Hi, Tim.

I understand now.

The branch admin add a request on launchpad, for remove the old members from our branch.

[Paolo Garbin (paolettopn)]

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[Karl Fogel (kfogel)]

Hmm, why was this "Won't Fix"?

A branch owner should be able to remove the subscription of anyone who would then not be able to resubscribe (as is the case with any current subscriber who is no longer on the team that allowed them to subscribe in the first place). There is no reason for subscription to be a one way street.

I've set status in both bug tasks to "Confirmed" for now; obviously it's up to the team to prioritize it, but I do think it's a valid bug; in fact I'll mention it on https://dev.launchpad.net/LEP/BetterPrivacy too. But I don't mean to start a status-reversion war -- if setting to "Confirmed" wasn't the right thing to do, let's discuss.

[Launchpad QA Bot (lpqabot)]

Fixed in stable r13409 <http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~launchpad-pqm/launchpad/stable/revision/13409>.