= Registry Administrator duties =

The [[https://launchpad.net/~registry | Registry Administrator]] is
responsible for maintaining the quality
of registry data in Launchpad. It acts as a steward for unmaintained
projects and teams. The Launchpad engineering team are the leaders of
the Registry Administrator team and the Launchpad maintenance squads
take on the daily and monthly duties.


== Daily duties ==

 * Review the [[https://launchpad.net/~registry/+mailinglist-moderate | moderation queue]] for the `~registry` mailing list. <<BR>>
 Approve legitimate email to go to the list. Discard other emails.
 * Review the recent emails to the mailing list (or [[http://lists.launchpad.net/registry | archive]]) <<BR>>
 Respond to user requests: reply to the email if you are subscribed, or send an email to the user and CC the list.
 * Answer [[https://answers.launchpad.net/~registry/+needattentionquestions | open questions]]. <<BR>>
 ~registry does not get many questions (since users are directed to ask questions at /launchpad), but some users assign the team questions.
 * Decline invitations to join teams. <<BR>>
 ~registry is root-team used as a last resort for ownership.
 It does not participate in any community. It should not be
 a member of any team to gain permission or to receive email. <<BR>>
 * Remove superteams <<BR>>
 These have appeared because of merge-delete team defects.
 {{{
 from launchpadlib.launchpad import Launchpad
 lp = Launchpad.login_with(
     'retract-team', service_root='https://api.launchpad.net',
     version='devel')
 my_team = lp.people['registry']
 other = lp.people['<team-lp-id>']
 comment = 'The Registry admins should not be a member of any team.'
 my_team.retractTeamMembership(team=other, comment=comment)
 }}}
 ^ Replace <team-lp-id> with the name of the team ~registry is in.
 * Remove owned teams <<BR>>
 ~registry does not delegate responsibilities to other teams; it does not
 use other teams to manage the projects it stewards.  Therefore it should not own any teams.
 Launchpad does not provide a way to know 
 [[https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/744499 | what teams a person or team owns]],
 but you can [[https://launchpad.net/libxml2/+subscribe | examine your admined teams using a random project's +subscribe page]]
 and investigate those you do not understand.
   * Delete the team
   * Or make an admin the owner of the team and remove ~registry.
   * Note that some teams in the +subscribe list may be from ~rosetta-admins,
   which also should not own any teams.
 * Clean up objects [[https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/613603 | wrongly linked to ~registry by team merge-delete]]
   * Remove [[https://launchpad.net/~registry/+subscriptions | direct bug subscriptions]]
   * Remove [[https://launchpad.net/~registry/+structural-subscriptions | structural bug subscriptions]]
   * Remove [[https://bugs.launchpad.net/~registry/+assignedbugs | bug assignments]]
   * Remove [[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/~registry/+specs?role=assignee | blueprint assignments, drafter, approver]]
   * Remove blueprint subscriptions (not possible)


== Monthly duties ==

 * Deactivate abandoned projects <<BR>>
 Visit [[https://launchpad.net/projects | Search projects]] and search for
 terms that users add to display names and descriptions to indicate that
 they have given up the project: delete, dead, remove, obsolete, abandoned.
 The listing often
 includes 10-20 projects where you can see the user is asking for the project
 to be removed. See [[https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/413585 | bug 413585]]
 * Delete abandoned teams <<BR>>
 Visit [[https://launchpad.net/people | Search people]] and search for
 terms that users add to display names and descriptions to indicate that
 they have given up the team: delete, dead, remove, obsolete, abandoned.
 * Review licensing of active projects owned by ~registry <<BR>>
 Review the listings for projects owned by Registry Admins:
 [[https://launchpad.net/projects/+review-licenses?field.search_text=&field.active=True&field.active-empty-marker=1&field.license_reviewed=&field.license_reviewed-empty-marker=1&field.license_approved=False&field.license_approved-empty-marker=1&field.license_info_is_empty=&field.license_info_is_empty-empty-marker=1&field.licenses-empty-marker=1&field.has_zero_licenses=True&field.has_zero_licenses-empty-marker=1&field.created_after=&field.subscription_expires_after=&field.subscription_modified_after=&field.created_before=&field.subscription_expires_before=&field.subscription_modified_before=&search=Search&batch=50 | Projects without a license]]
 and [[https://launchpad.net/projects/+review-licenses?field.search_text=&field.active=True&field.active-empty-marker=1&field.license_reviewed=True&field.license_reviewed-empty-marker=1&field.license_approved=False&field.license_approved-empty-marker=1&field.license_info_is_empty=&field.license_info_is_empty-empty-marker=1&field.licenses=DONT_KNOW&field.licenses-empty-marker=1&field.has_zero_licenses=&field.has_zero_licenses-empty-marker=1&field.created_after=&field.subscription_expires_after=&field.subscription_modified_after=&field.created_before=&field.subscription_expires_before=&field.subscription_modified_before=&search=Search&batch=50 | "I Don't Know" projects]]
 You can either update the license information or deactivate the project.