On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 11:59 -0400, Jonathan Blandford wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 08:13 -0700, John Cherry wrote:
>
> > - Is the work on defect tracking across projects that is being
> > done with the Launchpad site something that can be leveraged
> > by the community?
>
> Last time I looked, Launchpad wasn't free software. It's a little hard
> to get excited about it for that reason.
Good point. The FAQ states...
Is Launchpad open source? Will it be?
Our goal is to release all of Launchpad as free software, though
it will take some time (potentially, years) before that
happens.
We are doing so in a piecemeal approach. Parts of Launchpad have
already been released as free software where they would be
particularly useful to other projects. And very few, if any,
Launchpad modifications to upstream code are not immediately
published to those upstream projects.
Launchpad is a large, monolithic, web application. We would be
happy to release the code for the Registry, for example, which
keeps track of all upstream projects and their series and
releases; however, that code will not run without the
distribution management code, which is part of of the service
that Canonical provides to other companies that make their own
distributions.
If you are keen on seeing Launchpad components published as free
software sooner, rather than later, and you have good Python and
Zope3 skills, we are happy to provide code access and accept
patches that use Zope 3's component architecture to factor out
individual Launchpad applications and make it easier to release
chunks of Launchpad. That is a lot of hard work, but it would
make it possible to release the Registry, and the parts of
Rosetta that are used for upstream translation.
John
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