Yeah, 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]:

Yeah, 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