Project search results page is misleading
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Launchpad itself |
Triaged
|
Low
|
Unassigned |
Bug Description
Scott Kitterman
> Projects
Projects in Launchpad
1 project found matching spf
PySPF: a Python implementation of SPF
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If the project you are looking for isn't here, go ahead and register it yourself!
After searching for a project, the search results page makes this misleading statement:
"Why register?
Launchpad helps people to work together by making it easy to share code, bug reports, translations, and ideas. To get started, search here for a project you want to know more about.
There are 7306 projects registered in Launchpad, of which
2058 have bugs reported, 453 have translations, 4307 have Bazaar branches,
1191 have blueprints, and 1178 have questions & answers."
No where does it mention that most of these are empty shells that are unrequested clones of real projects hosted elsewhere. It's fundamentally dishonest.
affects: | launchpad-foundations → launchpad-registry |
Changed in launchpad-registry: | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
status: | New → Triaged |
tags: | added: projects search |
tags: | added: confusing-ui |
Can you suggest a solution? How would you word it?
Not being facetious -- if we can design a good solution, we can
implement it. And it would be an easy first patch for someone new
to the code, too, probably.