allenap - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Talk about hoops (Score 1) 104

by allenap on Tuesday July 21, 2009 @08:59AM (#28769269) Attached to: Canonical Fully Open-Sources the Launchpad Code

It's as if they don't want anyone to download it.

...

And because there's no way to just _get the source_ (ie. a tarball with source files in it) there's no way to download it without screwing with Apache.

Once you've got bzr 1.16.1 or later you can do bzr branch lp:launchpad to get the Launchpad code. That's pretty easy. Then, if you find yourself fixing a bug, you have a working tree in which to commit your changes. A tarball is a static lump with no history and no future, and if you want tomorrow's code, you'll have another big tarball to download.

How about a way to browse it online?

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~launchpad-pqm/launchpad/db-devel/changes

Canonical Fully Open-Sources the Launchpad Code 104

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday July 21, 2009 @08:27AM from the done-and-done dept.

kfogel writes "Canonical has just fully open-sourced the code to Launchpad. Although we'd said earlier that a couple of components would be held back, we changed our mind. All the code has been released under the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3. 'Canonical will continue to run the Launchpad servers, taking care of production and deployment issues; opening up the code doesn't mean burdening the users with all of that stuff. At the same time, we'll institute processes to shepherd community-contributed code into the system, so that people who have ideas for how to improve Launchpad can quickly turn these ideas into reality.'"

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