Registering Products in launchpad

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

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On May 8, 2006, at 9:18 PM, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> ...
> is there some kind of policy when to register products to launchpad? I
> image some upstream projects, which are managed by cvs and have their
> own bugzilla, but upstreams don't care about registering them into
> launchpad. May I register that product even I'm not related to 
> upstream in any way?
> ...

Yes, you can. At the moment, this is useful mainly for Malone, so you 
can register bugs in distribution packages (e.g. an Ubuntu package) as 
occurring upstream as well.

> I've seen some projects which are registered by canonical people. So I
> assume it is okay to just go on and transfer ownership to the upstream
> once they want to take over maintenance over the product entry in
> launchpad. Whats the process if this case happens?
> ...

When logged in, the current maintainer can choose "Change Maintainer", 
and enter the ID or e-mail address of the upstream person (provided 
they have a Launchpad account already).

We don't yet have a process for saying "Hey, that product's mine!" when 
the current "maintainer" doesn't want to give it up. I've just reported 
a bug for that. <https://launchpad.net/bugs/43741>

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Matthew Paul Thomas
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