On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 15:35 +0200, A. Klitzing wrote: > Hi there, > > I registered "Arch Linux" to launchpad.net [1]. > I like the idea of a corporate platform for linux distributions. I > don't want to replace existing infrastructure (flyspray, ...). But it > will help (me and some other, I think) to mark a bug to be presence in > Arch, too. I used a lot of bugtrackers and the bugtracker of > launchpad works very nice (even LP lacks flyspray-support at the > moment [4]). > Maybe someone wants to work with Arch and launchpad, too, like > forwarding bugs to Arch if needed. I'm open to add people to that team > [2] or give ownership to developers. > > Also I asked for Arch-Support on PPA [3]. But that will be a low > priority. I don't want to destroy your plan, so have in mind that I am negative about Launchpad when you read this ;) First of all: why? Do you think anyone of the Ubuntu guys cares more if a bug is also marked as being valid on Arch? I mean (and that's imho part of the arch philosophy), the best thing is to get bugs fixed upstream and not report them to "Ubuntu". Second: Launchpad features may be nice (and even superior to self-hosted stuff (eg. Trac)), but that only applies when you use most (read all) parts of it. (Including bzr for example). Last one: I bet PPA won't support building pacman-packages for the next 10+ years :) Is it a problem? Not really, isn't actually too hard to create a cross-package as Arch only supports two architectures anyway...
