Comment 3 for bug 29743

After a chat in #bzr, I was convinced that author is actually useful and that this is actuall an UI issue in personal branch listings.

Here is the real-world use case for author.
<LarstiQ> ok, let me walk through a small use case then
<LarstiQ> say, we have the product bitlbee, with main author wilmer
<LarstiQ> wilmer isn't really interested in launchpad himself, but the project is using bzr on insistance of the other devs
<LarstiQ> now, I'd like to attribute his branches to him
<LarstiQ> waiting for him to login and accept is painful
<ddaa> that's one of the two uses of author != registrant in launchpad: https://launchpad.net/people/jelmer/+branch/bitlbee/main
<LarstiQ> jelmer would be one of the lp inclined devs :)

The UI could be fixed by making the "registered branches" page list all the branches that person is the registrant of, or change the informative text on that page to read "These are branches you registered in Launchpad, but which you didn't author".

I'm not sure which one would be best.