The distribution +edit page is only accessible by LP admins

Matsubara, This isn't quite the same scenario as reported but it's related to the same problem.

The way I reproduced it is to:
1. Log in as an admin
2. Set the registrant to any non-admin
3. Go to http://launchpad.dev/ubuntu/+edit and make sure "uses blueprints" is checked.
4. Log in as the non-admin user from step 2.
5. Go to http://launchpad.dev/ubuntu/+edit
 -> You'll be redirected to the login page.

Hence the original description of total inaccessibility is correct, rather than just not being able to edit :-)

I had a user confirm this today with the nUbuntu distribution -- they were unable to +edit it.

Is this actually Soyuz or more Registry?

It would nice if the Registry team can work in this area, applying the same standards they already use for projects/products/people.

By "this area" I mean, Distribution/DistroSeries general forms (+add, +edit and +admin).

One team one dream I say.

Why is this High now? Not that I think it is sane to deny owner/maintainer the power to fulfil their responsibility. This can be scheduled for fixing if the issue is indeed high now.

There are some bugs that may relate to the discrepancy between role and permission: bug 159116, bug 107775. They may be closable by addressing the core issue.

This bug's description says that the checkboxes should not be present when the user doesn't have permission to change them, which is the case of the distro's owner.

However, if we want consistency with projects, then we need to make it possible for the distro owners to change the things represented by the checkboxes.

We'll have to re-evaluate whether or not bug 273652 is a dupe of this one after we decide how we're going to fix this bug.

Making projects and distribution consistent is the right thing to do. I believe that would invalid some bugs, and implicitly fix others

mainline r7520