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Apparently they started this thing right at the time where distributed version control systems started to take off, years before github (more or less at the sam
by catdog 9y ago
Apparently they started this thing right at the time where distributed version control systems started to take off, years before github (more or less at the same time git appeared). They were very early and clearly missed a big opportunity there.
Apart from realizing too late that people jumped onto git instead of their bazaar the PPA thing also is limited to Ubuntu, no support for other distributions, not even Debian. If they had made it a more universal solution back in the day this surely would have been a compelling argument for a lot of projects to move there. Another pain point is the UI, maybe not as bad as sourceforge but still cluttered and confusing.
- teraflop 9y agoYeah, among many other reasons, this is an example of Canonical's general proprietary attitude coming back to bite them. For instance, see this FAQ answer[1]: it comes right out and says that they have no interest in making it easy for anyone else to run instances of Launchpad, and that they only open-sourced it so that outside users could contribute improvements to Canonical's hosted service. I'm not surprised that nobody wants to work on a project like that unless they're getting paid to do so. [1]: https://answers.launchpad.net/launchpad/+faq/920 https://answers.launchpad.net/launchpad/+faq/920