Registrant didn't necessarily register project
Bug #90015 reported by
Matthew Paul Thomas
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #202135: Change project maintainer page also uses owner and registrant.
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Bug Description
From Kiko in bug 85234: "the use of the word 'Registrant' is really confusing now that we have labeled the date presented above it with 'Registered on:'. Registrant is effectively 'person in Launchpad responsible for this product, including serving as a bug and support contact, keeping the product data up to date and managing delegation of these tasks.' Argh."
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| importance: | Undecided → Low |
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| David Allouche (ddaa) wrote | #1 |
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Sigh... had this discussion with branches to start with... The various terms we can use are:
* Maintainer: cannot use this for projects, packages, distros because this term has a specific meaning there.
* Administrator: does not make much sense for branches, might be good for projects.
* Owner: obscure and loaded, although it is technically correct. Best avoided in all cases.
* Registrant: appropriate and correct most of the time.
* Contact: too narrow.
As a way to disambiguate "Registrant", we could add an "Original registrant" field, that would be None for cases where it's not known, and that's displayed wherever it's unset or different than the current registrant. But it's not a really useful information.
On the other hand, "registrant" is also used in other places as "the current owner of this registry entry". For example in the whois database. Merriam-Webster defines registrant as: "one that registers or is registered". Here it means "one that is responsible for the registration", even if one is not the original registrant.
In short: call it "Administrator" for projects, or drop it.