Development process

[Jamu Kakar]

Hi Noah,

Noah Gift wrote:
> Slightly off topic, but is there a way to get a trac like experience
> with bzr?  I know launchpad but that is only partially open sourced :)

Even if Launchpad were open-source, how would that help?  For example,
if we were using Trac the system would likely be hosted on a Canonical
server and you wouldn't have access to it's internals anyway.  So,
whether Launchpad is open source or not doesn't seem to be an
interesting point (I could be missing something).

Launchpad actually makes contributing and working with the project
very nice (not exactly Trac-like, but with similar functionality).
For example, as Gustavo mentioned in the 'Development process' message
you can branch directly from a Launchpad URL and push your branches
back up to Launchpad.  The branches you push will appear on the branch
listing page for Storm [0].

IMO, this is a *really* killer feature of Launchpad because it means
anyone can contribute branches and have them be visible on the main
Storm product page.  This is very different from a Trac-like system
where you can get/browse code but still need to be given priviledged
access to make your changes visible on the official project page.  Of
course, the changes in your branch will need to go through the review
process and be merged by a member of the Storm team; however, as
Gustavo mentioned, being part of the Storm team is possible but not
particularly interesting in this environment, unless you like boring
tasks like merging other peoples branches. :)

Does this help?  Have I misunderstood your question?

Thanks,
J.

[0] https://code.launchpad.net/storm/