The name PPA is jargon and inaccurate : they are not always 'personal'
Bug #672494 reported by
Jonathan Lange
This bug affects 2 people
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Launchpad itself |
Triaged
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High
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
PPAs are a wonderful thing, and the name has got quite a bit of traction within the Ubuntu community.
However, increasingly they are being used by free software projects in some kind of official capacity, independent software vendors, consulting firms and large corporations. None of these are "personal". The cute acronym is nice for the folk who already know what they are, but for many newer developers it's yet another piece of jargon to learn.
PPAs should be renamed to "software archives" in our UI and documentation, and quite possibly in our code as well.
| Changed in soyuz: | |
| status: | New → Triaged |
| importance: | Undecided → High |
| tags: | added: doc ppa ui |
Revision history for this message
| Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote | #1 |
| summary: |
- Call PPAs "software archives" + The name PPA is jargon and inaccurate : they are not always 'personal' |
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I'm going to drop this to low - its a disruptive change (e.g. ppa.launchpad.net is in many thousands or even millions of users sources.lists now). If product / Ubuntu want to drive this, the technical changes are pretty modest: add a CNAME, setup apache to honour it as well, and do a massive search-replace on the code, and on the DB.