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[Martin Albisetti <martin.albisetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Christian Dywan
<christian@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Coming from the point of view of community projects, I wonder why
> there's a need to restrict apps to one person to begin with and not even
> use teams out of the box. There's a ton of problems involved with
> requiring a specific individual who is occasionally unavailable. I'm
> speaking from experience, I know what it means to not get critical fixes
> out for days.
> And indeed this applies to non-public probjects all the same as to
> public ones.
>
> Excuse my naivety here. I know there's security concerns. But seeing
> collaboration as an after-thought seems very backwards to me.

Well, we are building on top of an existing system, which is why our
starting point is users instead of teams.
We also don't want to make it mandatory to use Launchpad teams in
order to upload apps, so it's not the default option.


-- 
Martin