It's not obvious how to register a team

A lot of new Loco teams end up creating a project by accident and then correctly create their team. I just asked one such Loco admin about the process:

bac: was there some misleading documentation that led you to make the oops (creating the project by mistake)?
viridari: sort of
viridari: creating a team is a little more convoluted than creating a project in launchpad
viridari: ideally it would be just as easy to create one or the other but I had to click a couple levels deeper to figure out how to make a team
bac: ok, noted. there wasn't any loco-based docs that pushed you in that direction then? just confusing launchpad UI?
viridari: correct

If you don't know about the Home button's pulldown menu, how can you get to /people at all?

On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 08:39:26AM -0000, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> If you don't know about the Home button's pulldown menu, how can you get
> to /people at all?

Launchpad front page -> Register -> View people in the Actions Menu.

Maybe we could add a Register a team link beneath the Register a project?

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Diogo M. Matsubara

If I remember correctly I found it misleading to register. If you go to the
site (not being familiar with it) to register a team, you would click the
register button, then use the search to see if you could find a team already
registered. But the search is only for projects. If I search from the home
page or the register page it shows no matches for "Alabama" There is an
Alabama Team. I did not know there was a drop down menu when I first came
here. Maybe adding a Search field for finding a group or people.
 Just a thought.

Jason

On 8/8/07, Diogo Matsubara <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 08:39:26AM -0000, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> > If you don't know about the Home button's pulldown menu, how can you get
> > to /people at all?
>
> Launchpad front page -> Register -> View people in the Actions Menu.
>
> Maybe we could add a Register a team link beneath the Register a
> project?
>
> --
> Diogo M. Matsubara
>
> --
> It's not obvious how to register a team
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/102361
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> of the bug.
>

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Jason Sandlin

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AlabamaTeam
https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-us-al

I have been searching for a way to create teams for a long time now, and just found out now by reading the content above.

A fix that would help me a great deal is by adding a comment on how to create teams at the page explaining how to offer mentoring:

https://help.launchpad.net/MentoringManagement

I was just trying to create a team and had a lot of trouble, despite being an experienced Launchpad user.

On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 08:39:26AM -0000, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
>> If you don't know about the Home button's pulldown menu, how can you get
>> to /people at all?

> Launchpad front page -> Register -> View people in the Actions Menu.

> Maybe we could add a Register a team link beneath the Register a project?

When clicking on reister it bring you to register a project, ther eis no choice to register a team on that page.

I had same problem. Ended up asking on IRC channel where I got help from someone with the nick "stdin".

In my opinion there should be a link to information about registering teams on pages where you can select a team (like at the page for choosing driver of the project/series).

On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 11:06:13AM -0000, Arvid Norlander wrote:
> In my opinion there should be a link to information about registering
> teams on pages where you can select a team (like at the page for
> choosing driver of the project/series).

Salgado, for pages where you specify an owner this is already possible.
I wonder whether the right solution here isn't to use that same widget
anywhere you could possibly want to use a team?

On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 08:49:51AM -0300, Christian Robottom Reis wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 11:06:13AM -0000, Arvid Norlander wrote:
> > In my opinion there should be a link to information about registering
> > teams on pages where you can select a team (like at the page for
> > choosing driver of the project/series).
>
> Salgado, for pages where you specify an owner this is already possible.
> I wonder whether the right solution here isn't to use that same widget
> anywhere you could possibly want to use a team?

Sounds like a good idea to me, but I think we should use the widget with
caution in the beginning, to avoid unnecessary teams being created.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/102361

It's very hard to find the link on Launchpad that lets you register a
new team. Someone else was just affected by this today.

It seems like this could be very easily fixed by considering where
people will probably look for it: on a product or on their person
homepage. Why not add an action to "register a new team" on the
person and project overviews.

At least then it's easy to describe how to get there: click your name
in the top right.

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Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>