Projects vs products?

[lloyd at foolswisdom.com]

Projects vs products seem to be a re-occurring open source identity
crisis that also finds itself in launchpad.

Products are defined at https://launchpad.net/products

Projects seems to be used in the main page introduction text and in the FAQ.

Right below that is 'Search for products' and 'Featured products'.
Aside, I am not sure why title capitalization is not used on this page
except for the main title, and the 'Other services' ?

My personal favorite confusion is achieved while viewing
https://launchpad.net/projects
Though I typed in the link directly, so I am not sure what pages lead there.

Matthew East was kind enough to respond when I posted this to the
wrong mailing list [1], and suggest "These are two different concepts
in Launchpad. It's intended. The
distinction is pretty tricky to master."

What Matthew describes I found out while consideration this issue.
When creating a project, the page says "a 'Project' is a group that
produces several related products." I don't think the usage on the
front page, product search page, and FAQ match that definition, and I
hope they were not intentional.

I did not find a bug, should I file one? Any thought?

Possible related links:
https://launchpad.net/products/launchpad/+bug/5276
https://wiki.launchpad.canonical.com/FixingProjects

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