Project review

Launchpad Registry admins can review projects. Projects are reviewed to ensure:

• Proprietary projects have commercial subscriptions
• Spammers are not using Launchpad
• The project name space is not cluttered with fake projects
• Communities are sharing projects

The licensing issue is most important. The latter items are indicative of communication and usability issues. Spam is a big concern, but the Launchpad community could possible help with that.

Launchpad get between 10 and 30 projects registered everyday. Saturday and Sundays have few while Mondays and Tuesdays have many.

Daily review of projects that need review

View review projects to see a listing of the projects that need review. This queue should be driven to zero. It takes between 5 and 15 minutes to do so, and it is much faster to review each project in a separate tab. View the project title, summary and description to judge if the project is legitimate, is a test, is a mistake, or is spam. Use the Review project link to mark the project reviewed and in 80% of the time you will approve it.

Do not do judge value or viability of the project! A review of projects revealed that 50% of project that we esquired about were thriving, 50% of project we did not enquirer about had failed. Let time be the judge of value and viability.

1. First search for special case licenses the that may need correspondence. There are the "I don't know" and "Other" licenses:

• I don't know yet: If the project does not look like spam or a test, mark it reviewed. Do not approve it because the project could later add proprietary content.
• Other/Proprietary: If the project does not look like spam or a test, mark it reviewed. You cannot approve it.
• Other/Open Source: This is hard for those not familiar with the

  definition of Open Source. Launchpad is happy to host any compliant project for free. Many users chooses licenses that are approved, search for Other/Open Source examples. Many users choose Other/Open Source, then list a proprietary licenses, such as CC-NC. When in doubt, talk to Curtis or William.

2. Second view all projects that need review (uncheck the three licenses).

• Review all the projects owned by the Registry Admins first. As a member of the team, you own this project. Half of the projects are created by users registering a project for a package, the other half are when users abandon a new project (testers?). Mark the projects that have code, or link to Ubuntu as reviewed and approved. Deactivate projects that have no assets that a community can use (and mark it reviewed).
• You may want to scan the list of projects for "test" or "prueba". See the Actions section below about how to deal with them
• The remaining list of projects will claim to be legitimate free software. Opening several in tabs is the fastest way to check the title, summary, and description to verify the project is not spam or an accident (the user wanted a team, archive, personal repository). Choose the Review link to mark the project as reviewed and approved if all is well. Otherwise see the Actions section below to handle issues.
• Note OpenERP is a very active project and it has dozens of localisation projects. They are legitimate. they sometimes state that they are doing translations, but that is really the case.

Actions to address common issues

• The project is spam
  Deactivate the project. Locate the user and suspend him (and note why the user is suspended).

• The user wanted a team, archive, repo
  Run ./disable_project.py <project-id> to send an email to the maintainer and mark the project are reviewed and inactive.

• The project is a test
  Run ./disable_project.py <project-id> to send an email to the maintainer and mark the project are reviewed and inactive.

• The project is a translation of a project already registered
  Run ./disable_project.py --msg=2 <project-id> to send an email to the maintainer and mark the project reviewed and inactive.

• The project is a duplicate of an existing mirrored project
  Run ./disable_project.py <project-id> to send an email to the maintainer and mark the project are reviewed and inactive.

• The project claims to be open source, but discriminates against a use or group
  Run ./license-conflict-notice.py <project-id> to send an email and mark the project as reviewed.

• The project claims to be open source, but does not link to a license or describe a license
  Run ./license-ambiguous-notice.py <project-id> to send an email and mark the project as reviewed.