Comment 13 for bug 339951

> Great point... it is very important that people who do not know what a
> PPA is can get an idea what they are looking at.

Personal Package Archive might not make sense to a user, because it is
in no way personal to him. Maybe we should call it Public Package
Archive instead, or something else instead when we are presenting it
to a user.

>> "This is a site used by _Bazaar Developers_ to provide some customized
>> software packages for Ubuntu. They claim to provide fresh beta versions
>> of Bazaar version control system. By subscribing to their software, you
>> express your trust in them installing software on your system, and
>> providing updates to your previously installed software. [subscribe]"

> Great - perhaps "By adding this PPA to your system..." rather than "By
> subscribing to their software", just so the "Adding this PPA to your
> system" heading is an obvious next step.

I don't think the user is "adding an archive to his system". He is
agreeing to trust the maintainers to provide him software. Maybe the
button/link should say "list Bazaar Developers as a trusted software
provider".

> And yes - it would be great to have a [subscribe] button :), currently
> the best we can do (with Karmic) is as described in the "Adding this PPA
> to your system" section, but I hope that we'll soon be able to make this
> a link instead which will automatically bring up Software Sources on the
> users computer with the ppa ready to confirm.

The button is not too important as long as our language matches the
mental model of an arbitrary user.

>> ...and this is pretty much it. I understand there might be a need for
>> filing bugs specific to their PPA or browsing the packages in some form,
>> but any such functionalities should be low profile links somewhere on
>> the side.
>
> I'm glad you think so :), most of the feedback we've had so far has all
> been from developers who want the package/detailed stuff to be back on
> the index page.

You should probably provide them a way to get to their admin pages
more efficiently then. That page is linked from the user page to my
understanding by accident, and not by design. I'm also not sure, if
linking that page from the user page is a good idea.

>> Currently the page is full of all kinds of stuff. Most of it
>> is useful in some use case, but won't help my father start using the
>> PPA, when I simply email him a url to this page instead of going to his
>> computer and doing it myself.
>
> Unless you've setup your father as an admin, I think it'll always
> require you setting it up (but not needing to be at his computer), as
> adding a PPA to a system requires adding/editing files that only an
> admin can edit (sources.list entries). But the point still holds - users
> who don't know what a PPA is (but are admins of their computer) should
> be able to add it easily.

I used to be the admin of my father's pc when he was using Windows.
With Ubuntu, I just watched him install it and become his own admin.