Am Dienstag, 18. März 2008 13:47:23 schrieb Dennis Schridde: > Hello everyone! > > I have recently created a Launchpad project for Warzone 2100 at > https://launchpad.net/warzone2100. > The Warzone 2100 Resurrection Project resides at > https://launchpad.net/~warzone2100. > > Now I would like to ask you: Do we want to use it, or shall I request > deletion? > > Reasons contra Launchpad: > - Owned by Canonical, a company whose comercial intentions do not seem to > be clear (i.e. "evilness") > - Launchpad is not FOSS > - Launchpad is driven by Canonical, not a community (what happens if the > company goes down, or turns "evil"?) > - Launchpad admins and mods are apparently Canonical employees only (I > conclude this because I only got responses to bug reports and other > request, which I filed on friday, on the next workday, after the weekend) > - The UI has some issues or annoyances > > Reasons pro Launchpad: > - They are said to have a nice translator community (Icculus did so on the > MojoSetup mailinglist) > - Translation UI is quite nice, too > - The UI is nice and mostly intuitive (apart from the annoyances mentioned > above) > - It could handle versioning, bug tracking, etc too. But I currently don't > intend to use that. > - It seems to have some automatism to create Ubuntu packages via Personal > Package Archives > > The translation UI can be found at > https://translations.launchpad.net/warzone2100/2.1/+pots/warzone2100 > and > https://translations.launchpad.net/warzone2100/2.1/+pots/warzone2100/de/+tr >anslate (I only uploaded only german for now, since I want this to be > evaluated by you first.) I closed translations for wz again, to prevent anyone from modifying it till we decided what to do. Instead, please refer to https://translations.launchpad.net/mojosetup/trunk/+pots/mojosetup for a demo.
--Dennis
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