Forbidden following link to configure code hosting

[Gavin Panella]

https://code.launchpad.net/hexr contains a "Configure code hosting" link that results in a forbidden error when I follow it, probably because branches are private and I do not have permission to see them

[Launchpad QA Bot (lpqabot)]

Fixed in stable r14521 <http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~launchpad-pqm/launchpad/stable/revision/14521>.

[Steve Kowalik (stevenk)]

Marking as qa-ok, but really means 'safe to deploy'. It doesn't work, so the bug should not be closed.

[Steve Kowalik (stevenk)]

So what is going on here is that we have permission to edit the development focus, but we can't see the current branch set.

[Curtis Hovey (sinzui)]

The issue is not about development focus. I can visit:
    https://code.launchpad.net/testtools/trunk/+setbranch
and see the page. Visiting
    https://code.launchpad.net/hexr/trunk/+setbranch
Errors because the project is already configured with a branch I do not have permission to access:
    Unauthorized: (<Branch u'~ZZZZ/hexr/YYYY' (XXX)>, 'unique_name', 'launchpad.View')

This is a difficult case to deal with. I do have the right as a moderator (~registry) to set the branch, but I do not have permission to see all the branches, and specifically the branch that is currently set. This is more problematic for myself because I am also a commercial admin -- I cannot help with setting up such as project.

We could decide that anyone with permission to configure code hosting can know about the private branches and specifically know about the current branch.