On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 12:02:28PM -0700, Josh Andler wrote:
Just out of curiosity... does anyone else feel that us moving everything over to launchpad may be a good idea? The features and level of integration between things there is ever improving at a rapid pace it seems.
And to me, anything that makes managing the project easier is good. I have been extremely happy with our change-over from sf on the bug/rfe tracking, and it looks like we'd have greater integration (which means less reproduction of efforts) by moving everything else over too. However, I'm pretty sure that we'd still need to utilize sf for releases and such (which isn't necessarily a bad thing). Just my .02.
I've also been quite pleased with the bug tracker changeover. I would definitely favor moving more things over to launchpad.
In particular, I do a good bit of mailing list administration - people mail me privately about subscription issues, people post to inkscape-announce inappropriately, some messages require manual admin review, yada yada. The problem is that the mailing list admin tools in Sourceforge are really buried, down half a dozen page clicks, and require two separate logins (once to my SF account, then again with the mailing-list-specific admin password). I've entirely given up administrating half our mailing lists and just procmail admin requests (mostly spam junk) to the bit bucket.
Version control could also be moved over if we chose to switch to bzr. We had a pretty lengthy discussion but didn't reach a solid enough consensus. You know, it looks like converting between bzr to git, or git to bzr, is quite doable and straightforward. There would be more upfront setup work for git than bzr (building account management stuff, setting it up on our own web server, yada yada), so we could try out bzr (which I think would be pretty trivial to switch to), and if we find people don't like it, we could then convert to git and set up the server and stuff for it. What do people think of this approach?
Donations I've been working on setting up a new page that bypasses SourceForge. Just need to get some spare time to finish up. Since we are using less and less of their services, I don't feel we need to give them a cut of our donations. ;-)
The one other major thing SourceForge gives us - File Mirroring - I don't know that we can do in Launchpad yet. We can do PPA for ubuntu stuff, but I don't think that'll work for RPMs, EXEs, etc. SF's UI for their file mirrors (both for downloading and administration) is irritating but it works. I'd love to hear of alternatives.
Is there anything else we're getting from SourceForge, or anything else in Launchpad we'd want to look at using?
Bryce