Comment 8 for bug 376520

See mailing list thread about this: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/private/launchpad/2009-May/thread.html#41350

Note to public readers: sorry that that thread is internal to Canonical! As part of open-sourcing Launchpad (http://dev.launchpad.net/OpenSourcing), those sorts of discussions will be public in the very near future. Can't happen soon enough. In this case, there was no real reason the discussion had to be private, it's just that the forum where we happened to talk about it is private by default.

A summary of the thread would be basically what Curtis is saying above: the concept of "teams" is confusing because they're really about two different things -- access control, and community. The problem is that most people think of them as about community, and are confused when they use the same object to implement access control. It's not clear what the solution is yet.