On 2011-03-11 13:10, Chris Morgan wrote:
I'm sure it's ten times better, but it seems like a shame to spend time on
launching something we already have.
I think we only partially have Launchpad Answers; how many use it or really know about it? It's quite obscure. And, while powerful, Launchpad is not the most friendly system to work with. If we have it integrated on our own "normal"-type site, I think we'll get more people using it and finding Inkscape support helpful than we would with the Launchpad Answers system, however we promoted it. Having everything in one place is a Very Good Thing.
Have I convinced you? Or not? Please let me know if you wish to. But I do very much think it's worth doing.
You might be getting there, but I'm not convinced just yet :) One problem I see is that currently Launchpad follows exactly your philosophy of having everything in the same place, so in a way breaking out this part to a different site would lead us astray. Currently there are a few things on Launchpad: - Code - Bugs/feature requests - Blueprints (generally grander ideas than a mere feature request) - Answers (Also, the idea is that there can be some integration/sharing between projects on Launchpad, but I'm not sure how often that is actually used.) Most of these are at least in some way integrated with each other (and are obviously accessible using a single account and through a single portal), offering more functionality than just the sum of the parts.
Now, if for some reason Code would be separated from the rest I think this could be acceptable (although there might be people who disagree), but separating the rest sounds like a bad idea to me. QA and "bugs" go hand in hand, where people asking questions might well become people filing bugs (and possibly even vice versa). Also, as you pointed out yourself, it has definite advantages to keep things in one place.
So, for me the question would then become: do you also plan on moving bugs and blueprints? And if you are planning on moving over bugs and blueprints, what exactly do we gain by doing this? (And what do we loose?) And if we must have these things (and can live without the things we loose), have we tried seeing them realized in Launchpad?
Another thing that might be useful to consider is that Launchpad has an API. So in principle we could try exposing certain things directly on the site in more or less fancy ways.