Kern Sibbald wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> For some time (several years), I have been unhappy with the service offered 
> by 
> the Source Forge hosting for the Bacula project.  Aside from being very slow 
> to the point that we have often been unable to upload releases for several 
> days, they have now gone what I would call "commercial", which means that 
> there are commercial ads plastered all over the place including all the 
> pages -- even the developer only release pages.  I find it quite annoying to 
> have these moving, scrolling, blinking images advertising commercial software 
> such as Zmanda, GoodSync, ... all claiming to be Open Source or free.
> 
> I didn't realize until a few days ago that Canonical had opened Lauchpad last 
> November for Open Source projects.  Currently MySQL is being hosted there.  
> Launchpad provides a whole pile of very significant improvements for hosting 
> an Open Source project that do not exist with what we are currently using.
> Considering that Ubuntu and MySQL are both using Launchpad, I expect that it 
> has more than enough capacity and features to meet our needs.
> 
> As I see it, there would be two major difference between what we are 
> currently 
> doing and what Launchpad offers (not to mention all kinds of good tools that 
> we are not using).  The first is the use of Bazaar rather than Subversion for 
> repository control. Bazaar allows anyone to make his own branch of an 
> official Bacula branch and to request merging in the Bacula trunk, which is 
> reported to be very easy.  The second major change would be the bug reporting 
> system, which can be accessed both by a Web interface as we have for Mantis, 
> but also by direct email input ...
> 
> I suggest you take a look at the features that are available in Launchpad and 
> at the skeleton of a Bacula project that is already there.  Launchpad in 
> general can be found at:
> 
>   https://launchpad.net/
> 
> and Bacula in particular at:
> 
>   https://launchpad.net/bacula
> 
> I am still working on understanding the Launchpad system, but what I have 
> seen 
> so far is very impressive.  At the current time, the SVN is being imported 
> into Launchpad, and the bugs database is not yet approved for import.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Kern
> 

I'm agree with the description of SF.

About bazaar, I was lost in only 10 click ( that's why they call it bazaar :-)
I feel that you leave to easily the bacula project and jump to another thing 
without being noticed

For example I click to code next to lp:~vcs-imports/bacula/trunk
And then reclick to overview ... (thinking I goes back from where I was ) but 
in fact this is the overview to VCS project.

Quite confusing ... In SF I never jump from one project to another.

It's just my 2cts in 65 secondes experience :-)



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