For the record, I think Canonical has a very sophisticated view of the free software model. We directly fund a huge amount of free software development, through Ubuntu, Bazaar, Storm and other projects. The vast majority of the code we work on and publish is published under the GPL. So we know where we get a lot of participation, and where we don't. Our expectation is that Launchpad would not attract a lot of participation.
The pattern that has emerged in my mind is that the more frequently developers actually execute a piece of code on their laptops, the more likely they will participate when they can. Bazaar (bzr - bazaar-vcs.org) has attracted an amazing community, because lots of people use it every day. CSCVS is another piece of Launchpad that we released, and it gets virtually no participation, because virtually nobody actually runs it. People use it via LP, they don't run it themselves. I do expect Launchpad will be fully open source in time. I discuss this regularly with the Launchpad team, almost all of whom are significant open source contributors to Python, Zope, Bugzilla, Bazaar, and other major projects. We all want to get to that point, we also all don't think that releasing it in one lump will actually help. Right now we are trying to figure out a standardised way to export all data in LP so nobody worries about data lockin. That at least is establishing a best-practice for web services that I hope other sites will follow. -- Launchpad should be free software (free as in freedom) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/50699 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
