No mention of project maintainer on a project page

The row specifying the maintainer should appear immediately above the row specifying the driver, like it did on the old project page.

A project has an owner and a driver. In the old UI the owner was presented as 'Registrant' but it was deemed to be less than useful. The driver is now displayed if it is set for a project but omitted otherwise. If the project has a super-project then the driver for the super-project should be used.

The problem with calling .owner "registrant" was that often it wasn't true. Currently, Launchpad doesn't know who registered a project, and it will continue not to know unless it starts recording that information read-only.

The problem with calling .owner "owner" or "maintainer" is that it's not true for placeholder projects. For example, Launchpad claims that I'm the "Maintainer" of Mozilla, but that has never been true. (Mozilla is a project group, but the same would apply to projects.)

I was going to suggest that we show .owner as "Maintainer" if the project uses Launchpad for development. But I see a prominent counterexample: Firefox doesn't use Launchpad for development, but <https://launchpad.net/firefox> claims that it uses Launchpad for Code and Translations. Is this a problem with the suggestion, or a problem with the counterexample? (The Firefox page also claims that Firefox's driver is Ubuntu's Mozilla team, which is obviously false.)

(Reported bug 251877 about the project group maintainer problem.)

I've suggested in bug 253341 that the project registration page should ask whether you are the maintainer of the project, or whether you're registering it as a placeholder for bug-tracking/branch-tracking purposes. Whether you ended up being shown on the project page would depend on your answer to this question.

The issue with Firefox displaying that it uses Launchpad for code and translations is a red herring. Those displays are driven by the state of .official_code_hosting and .official_rosetta so if the display is wrong for Firefox it is a problem of incorrect data for that project.

I'll raise the Firefox, Thunderbird, and Openoffice problems with the people currently using those project names in Launchpad. Meanwhile, Brad will go ahead and show the .owner field as "Maintainer" for projects using Launchpad.

RF 6848

I've changed firefox at least -- are ooo and thunderbird also wrong?