moving to the cloud for development

[mark]

Edit, read first: After a lot of looking and talking to damned_colonial, only Launchpad is under consideration now. But the rest of the entry is preserved for interested parties.

Now the question is, how big of a change is this for us, and does it provide enough positive benefit considering the interruption? I think it does, what do you think?

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After OSCON, I'm considering hosting the Dreamwidth code on Launchpad or GitHub, which are both open source project hosting environments that give you a lot of really cool collaborative features and help to lower the barriers for people to get working on things. Plus, it makes it really easy to federate the code like we want people to be able to federate the site.

I'd love people to go take a look and comment with their thoughts:

Launchpad has a site tour: https://launchpad.net/+tour/index

GitHub has some 'what we offer' halfway down the front page: http://github.com/

Yes, both of these would require that we learn either Bazaar or Git (as opposed to the Mercurial we use right now). And we'd have to figure out how to setup changelog to work with it. But those are minor hurdles, if the advantages of being in a hosted environment like that are really worth it.

Comments

[damned_colonial]

I would be strongly in favour of this!

I have a slight preference for launchpad for no very clearly defined reason, other than that it comes out of the Ubuntu community which I think has a really good vibe. And "good vibe" is what I associate with DW, you know?

As an aside, I know you saw this post of mine about the gender of the default user icons used on launchpad and github, but it might be of interest to others reading here.

[mark]

Yeah, I stole the idea from your talk on Forking Encouraged. And it turns out I don't really like maintaining my own repositories anyway, it's kind of a pain. ;)

[foxfirefey]

I'm kind of interested in Launchpad's translation interface.