[ZF] Proposal: Launchpad code hosting for ZF projects; free commercial support for migration

[Gary Poster]

On Feb 27, 2009, at 4:39 PM, Roger Ineichen wrote:

>>> I understand that Subversion is "good enough" for many people. But
>>> that doesn't mean we can't improve the situation ever. Andreas' and
>>> Roger's rejection of any new tool doesn't seem to be a well-founded
>>> argument to me. Like Leonardo said, if we had stuck with such
>>> arguments, we'd still be using CVS and the CMF Collector
>> today. Change
>>> isn't good or bad in itself, we just need to evaluate what we want
>>> from it.
>
> Since we switched to the launchpad bugtracker, I never used the
> bugtracker anymore. It was really a pain to use at the time we  
> switched
> and it wasn't compatible with the IE browser.
>
> But now, just looked at lauchnpad, it seems to look good now.
>
> I think our biggest problem in the zope community is that nobody  
> really
> have time for additional things. I see that there is progress with
> performance improvment and some dependency cleanup which is very good.
> But to switch to another versioning tool is just a nice to have thing
> and comes allways at the wrong time ;-)
>
> btw,
> I never saw a discussion about subversion and things we could not
> do with it. I don't belive this is a valid reason for switch to
> an exotic revision system which only a few projects use. We still
> need to stay with subversion for other open source projects.
>
> Does anyone have a pointer to a statistic about the usage of
> subversion and bzr?

Hi Roger,

Since the offer is specifically more for code hosting in Launchpad,  
I'll point you to the Launchpad tour:

https://launchpad.net/+tour/index

In particular, the code-hosting part of the tour is pertinent.

https://edge.launchpad.net/+tour/branch-hosting-tracking

Gary