Well, GitHub issues may be a bit more suitable for our needs now: https://github.com/blog/831-issues-2-0-the-next-generation
-Eric On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 05:21:20PM -0400, Jay Pipes wrote: > All, > > In an effort to speed up our code development processes, reduce the > friction amongst existing contributors and reduce barriers to entry > for new contributors familiar with the popular git DVCS, we (the > OpenStack@Rackspace team) have been studying a transition of our code > hosting from Launchpad to GitHub. We understand others would be > proposing the same at the design summit, but we figured it would be > good to get the discussion started earlier. > > GitHub has a number of major strengths when it comes to managing source code: > - Contributors seem to be more familiar with, and comfortable using, git > - The code review process on GitHub is easier to use for reviewers > who use the website interface and allows for fine-grained comment > control per line in diffs > > As good as the GitHub review system is, there are some deficiencies, > such as the lack of ability to mark a request as definitively > approved. We hope to work with the GitHub team to investigate how this > can be rectified. > > Of course, there is much more to delivering a professionally released > open source software package than just the code hosting platform. This > is the primary interface for code contributors who are actively > developing, but the project also needs to have processes in place for > handling bug reports, managing distribution, packaging, translations, > and releasing the code in an efficient manner. > > There are a number of things that Launchpad provides OpenStack > projects that GitHub does not have the ability to do. Examples of > these things include translation services, project management > abilities, package archives for projects, and release-management > functionality. > > Therefore, at this time, we are only proposing moving the code hosting > functionality to GitHub, and not radically changing any other parts of > the development and release process. > > Soren, Monty, and Thierry, who are the developers responsible for > keeping our release management and development infrastructure in good > shape, have identified the pieces of our existing infrastructure that > they will have to modify. Some of these changes are small, some > require a bit more work. They are all committed to making these > changes and to moving us along in the process of transitioning code > hosting over to GitHub. > > There will be a design summit session about this transition where the > process will be discussed in more detail, as well as the possibility > to migrate other parts of our infrastructure. > > Comments and discussion welcome. > > Cheers, > -jay > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp