Rethinking the Ubuntu Community in Terms of LaunchPad

[Michael Hall]

On 12/18/2014 04:01 PM, Elizabeth K. Joseph wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Svetlana Belkin <belkinsa at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> I wrote a blog post about how LaunchPad could be fixed and I was wondering
>> if that will help the Community to grow:
>> http://ubuntusense.com/2014/12/18/rethinking-the-ubuntu-community-in-terms-of-launchpad/
> 
> Since it's a blog post, I can't respond inline (still not liking this
> trend, makes discussions hard), so instead I'll give some general
> thoughts again: Changing blueprints is a nice idea since it is open
> source. Unfortunately Launchpad has pretty much been in maintenance
> mode for several years and the engineers haven't really been accepting
> new features in that time.
> 

It's not just up to Canonical engineers, if community developers can add
the requested features (and test cases, documentation, other
requirements) then it can happen.

Unfortunately Launchpad isn't a simple project to get started working
on. As far as I know cjohnston and nigelb are the only community
contributors it's had.

> So I don't have confidence that we'll see any changes to blueprints
> system, certainly not any time in the near future. Teams either have
> to figure out a way to make them work for them as is (many do) or use
> another system, as some teams have done with the Trello service (even
> though it is sadly closed source).
> 

Michael Hall
mhall119 at ubuntu.com