Launchpad itself

Project search results page is misleading

Bug #249626 reported by Scott Kitterman
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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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 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.

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Karl Fogel (kfogel) wrote :

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.

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Scott Kitterman (kitterman) wrote : Re: [Bug 249626] Re: Project search results page is misleading

The current design seriously misrepresents the status of open source
projects no hosted on Launchpad. I didn't come up with it.

I know the Launchpad vision is of everyone coming together on it to
exchange data, but that doesn't excuse the current design. I don't have
the time to come up with a redesign for you, but that doesn't make it any
less of a bug.

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Karl Fogel (kfogel) wrote :

The trouble is that there is a whole continuum of states between "empty shell" and "project primarily uses Launchpad for development". I am not denying that this is a bug, particularly in the case of the truly empty shell projects; I am merely saying that I'm not sure how to fix it, and I wondered if you had any ideas. Thank you for the bug report.

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Scott Kitterman (kitterman) wrote :

OK. Fair enough. I'll think about it.

Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
affects: launchpad-foundations → launchpad-registry
Changed in launchpad-registry:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Triaged
Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
tags: added: projects search
tags: added: confusing-ui
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