"Home page" vs. "Description" is misleading

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

Your person page currently has a "Change home page" link, taking you to a "Description" page inviting you to "Describe yourself - your current activities, interests and so on." But that's not what "home page" means on the rest of the Internet.

Teams for which you are an admin similarly have a "Change home page" link to a "Description" page, similarly inviting you to "Describe yourself", but you shouldn't do that here because this is a team page, not your own. Teams also have a separate "Team description" field, but to be even more confusing, that's not on the "Description" page, it's on a page that has no heading at all, which you get to by clicking "Change details".

One way of fixing this would be to merge "Home page" into "Description", so that:
* teams you're an admin of have a "Team description:" field on their "Change details" page
* you have a similar description field on your "Change details" page (perhaps labelled "Tell us about yourself:")
* any text that was previously in the "Home page" field is appended to the description field.

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

This hasn't been fixed.

[Huw Wilkins (huwshimi)]

The link has been changed, but the field to enter your description is still labelled "Homepage Content".

[Nigel Babu (nigelbabu)]

I had a chat with Curtis and here's a summary of it.

I think there are three db tasks and one code task to ensure no interuption to users:
1. Create a description field in the schema
2. Garbo job to to fill it from homepage_content + \n + team description
3. Update the index pages and forms to use the new field (do not show the old fields if the description is not empty).
4. remove the old columns when the garbo job is complete
5. Remove the old field from the models and templates

[Curtis Hovey (sinzui)]

I took a look at staging's db to gauge the scope of this change.
17807 persons have homepage_content only
 5968 person have teamdescription only
  628 person have homepage_content and teamdescription
24403 persons need updating

[Launchpad QA Bot (lpqabot)]

Fixed in db-stable r11051 <http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~launchpad-pqm/launchpad/db-stable/revision/11051>.

[Launchpad QA Bot (lpqabot)]

Fixed in db-stable r11055 <http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~launchpad-pqm/launchpad/db-stable/revision/11055>.

[William Grant (wgrant)]

The DB patch is finally deployed.

[Curtis Hovey (sinzui)]

This work is blocking the work to make team registration fast for project setup. We want users to edit the description on the page rather then enter it in a form at the time of registration or editing. I have a branch that adds IPerson.description and supports the deprecated fields.

[Launchpad QA Bot (lpqabot)]

Fixed in stable r15818 <http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~launchpad-pqm/launchpad/stable/revision/15818>.