Comment 5 for bug 437215

Julian - IMO the new archive index page is only useless to the PPA uploaders if they don't want any non-technical users of their PPA. So one of the main considerations is that as the owner/publisher of a PPA, I need to see the PPA as my users would see it also. A bit like a facebook profile or similar. I need to tweak the public display of my PPA to potential users.

Scott, as an uploader, does your browser automatically prompt you with the urls that you visit most often first? One of my main assumptions was that as an uploader for a PPA, I would go directly to +packages (it's certainly what I've been doing). Of course this won't happen initially because we're all used to going to /+archive/ppa (and we've many visits to that url in our browser history, increasing its priority). Or do you navigate to your PPA via a link from your profile? In essence, it'd be really helpful for me to know *how* you are navigating to your PPA (actually, how you have always navigated to the PPAs to which you're uploading).

The redirect idea has been discussed, but it's not so straight-forward, as there is quite a lot of functionality that's currently only available from the ppa index (all of which can be updated of course - I just think it requires a bit more thought and input from a range of users).

1. Displayname/description editing,
2. Dependencies
3. Managing access (private ppa's only)
4. Administering ppas (admin only).
5. Uploading instructions (uploaders only)
6. Dependency editing (uploaders only)