Converting a 'Person' to a 'Group' in Launchpad?

[Stuart Bishop]

Reinhard Tartler wrote:

> Recently, I uploaded wpasupplicant to dapper, with a new Maintainer
> field, pointing to "Debian/Ubuntu wpasupplicant Maintainers
> <pkg-wpa-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>". This caused a new person to be
> created in launchpad:
> 
> https://launchpad.net/people/pkg-wpa-devel
> 
> I was thinking about changing this to a group, so that others can join
> here, particiape in bug squashing and so on.
> 
> Is it possible at all in launchpad that a package is maintained by a
> group rather than a person? What would need to be done to have this
> 'converted'?
> 
> Please note that this is not an urgent request. I'm rather curious if
> this is possible at all, as I think this would resemble reality more
> accurately.

The data model supports this quite easily. Designing the workflow and
implementing the UI to do this is the only problematic bit.

I think the series of events you describe gives us a valid use case for
implementing this at some point.

> Currently, I have to create a group manually and make that new group a
> primary bug contact for that package. Then there would be some confusion
> about having 2 entities in Launchpad: one 'Person' 'pkg-wpa-devel' and a
> 'Group' calld 'wpa-packaging-team'.  I was rather thinking about the
> concept of having packages maintained by a group, and how this could be
> expressed and displayed within launchpad.

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