On change of project display-name; prompt to request for actual name to be changed

Bug #481697 reported by Steve McInerney
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Launchpad itself
Triaged
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

Probably a dupe of #4449.

We get a LOT of requests to change a name from X to Y after project owners change the display name.
It'd be useful to reduce the hassle factor for them (and us! ;-) ) if these steps were merged and/or made redundant.

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Curtis Hovey (sinzui) wrote :

This is not a dup.
Title is problematic and should go away.
Displayname should be name
Name should be launchpad_id

Before prompting the user to request a name (launchpad_id) change, I think we should reconsider why we make it so hard. A lot of projects are abandoned because the barrier to fix a mistake is much higher than taking two minutes and starting a new project. Since we have the alias field, we do not need to be concerned about broken links.

Fixing the UI experience is better than nothing, but letting user do what they are going to do either by force or by asking us is probably the best solution.

Changed in launchpad-registry:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Triaged
tags: added: chr
Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
Changed in launchpad-registry:
milestone: none → series-3.1
Tom Haddon (mthaddon)
tags: added: canonical-losa-lp
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