Beta product display misses the registrant, which is the group people should join to contribute to products

[Robert Collins]

09:44 < bac> i've been reading some of the bzr documentation and have noted some corrections. after poking at launchpad a bit it was unclear how to join in
             order to contribute to the project.
09:45 < bac> finally i found the bazaar developers team and joined.
09:45 < bac> a non-persistent person would've just given up
09:48 < bac> by 'non-persistent' i meant 'less persistent'
09:52 -!- bac is now known as bac_away
11:45 < lifeless> bac_away: so, this page: https://launchpad.net/bzr shows the team under 'registrant:' on the top right
11:45 < lifeless> bac_away: but this page: https://beta.launchpad.net/bzr does not.
11:45 < lifeless> bac_away: which one were you looking at?

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

The registrant is not "the group people should join to contribute to products"; it's either the individual person who registered the product in Launchpad, or a person or team that that Launchpad record has been entrusted to. Small products will likely retain an individual as their registrant, while large products will likely have as registrant a team containing a very small subset of its contributors. As such, the registrant is quite unimportant information, so having it in a box that is collapsed by default is reasonable.

It's true that Launchpad doesn't offer an explicit field for "how to get involved" (e.g. "subscribe to XYZ mailing list"), but that's something that should be addressed in the product's description (e.g. bug 76016). Possibly we should provide a hint under the Description field that people should use it for that purpose.

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

I've committed a fix for the Description field caption as I described above.

[Christian Reis (kiko)]

I'd also like to point out that the use of the word "Registrant" is really confusing now that we have labeled the date presented above it with "Registered on:". Registrant is effectively "person in Launchpad responsible for this product, including serving as a bug and support contact, keeping the product data up to date and managing delegation of these tasks." Argh.

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

That's a separate problem, now reported as bug 90015.