Comment 3 for bug 179561

We used to state that joining a team is not required to contribute to a project; it is a security concept, not a organizational concept. Users may answer questions, triage bugs, write blueprints, register code branches without contacting any member of a team. That is still true, but team membership is required to join a mailing list, which is where a team would presumably discuss goals of the project.

I think Launchpad must publish how a project is organised to uninitiated users. Users can learn the project's goals, and the users and teams that are responsible for doing them. A user then has an understanding of how he can participate.