LightDM - Sep 2017 - Proposal: Move LightDM code hosting from Launchpad to GitHub

Hi all,

I'm considering moving the LightDM code hosting from Launchpad to GitHub
and am interested in feedback.

Reasons for moving:
- Many Canonical projects are now hosted on GitHub (e.g. snappy, lxd)
- GitHub is pretty popular, so should hopefully make contributions easier.
- The value of using the Launchpad bug tracker to link upstream and Ubuntu
bugs is reduced, now 17.10 used GDM by default (for Ubuntu desktop, other
flavours continue to use LightDM).
- Easier to integrate tools with GitHub, e.g. continuous integration,
static analysis.

I don't plan on migrating the current bugs in Launchpad, but instead let
them rebuild in GitHub.

Like/dislike/don't care/questions?

--Robert
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Like! GitHub is dominant project management so familiar to most
contributors/users, and generally nice for features/usability.

- Darren
> On Sep 19, 2017, at 5:14 PM, Robert Ancell <robert.ancell at
gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm considering moving the LightDM code hosting from Launchpad to
GitHub and am interested in feedback.
> 
> Reasons for moving:
> - Many Canonical projects are now hosted on GitHub (e.g. snappy, lxd)
> - GitHub is pretty popular, so should hopefully make contributions easier.
> - The value of using the Launchpad bug tracker to link upstream and Ubuntu
bugs is reduced, now 17.10 used GDM by default (for Ubuntu desktop, other
flavours continue to use LightDM).
> - Easier to integrate tools with GitHub, e.g. continuous integration,
static analysis.
> 
> I don't plan on migrating the current bugs in Launchpad, but instead
let them rebuild in GitHub.
> 
> Like/dislike/don't care/questions?
> 
> --Robert
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Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 7:14 PM
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Subject: [LightDM] Proposal: Move LightDM code hosting from Launchpad to GitHub

Hi all,

I'm considering moving the LightDM code hosting from Launchpad to GitHub and
am interested in feedback.

Reasons for moving:
- Many Canonical projects are now hosted on GitHub (e.g. snappy, lxd)
- GitHub is pretty popular, so should hopefully make contributions easier.
- The value of using the Launchpad bug tracker to link upstream and Ubuntu bugs
is reduced, now 17.10 used GDM by default (for Ubuntu desktop, other flavours
continue to use LightDM).
- Easier to integrate tools with GitHub, e.g. continuous integration, static
analysis.

I don't plan on migrating the current bugs in Launchpad, but instead let
them rebuild in GitHub.

Like/dislike/don't care/questions?

--Robert
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Le 20/09/2017 à 02:14, Robert Ancell a écrit :
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> Like/dislike/don't care/questions?
>
> --Robert
>
Hi,
<https://www.gnu.org/software/repo-criteria-evaluation.en.html#GitHub>
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Sincerely, Stephane Ascoet

Hi Robert, and the rest,

Op 20 sep 00:14 schreef Robert Ancell:
> I'm considering moving the LightDM code hosting from Launchpad to
> GitHub and am interested in feedback.
> 
> Reasons for moving:
> - Many Canonical projects are now hosted on GitHub (e.g. snappy, lxd)
> - GitHub is pretty popular, so should hopefully make contributions
> easier.
> - The value of using the Launchpad bug tracker to link upstream and
> Ubuntu bugs is reduced, now 17.10 used GDM by default (for Ubuntu
> desktop, other flavours continue to use LightDM).
> - Easier to integrate tools with GitHub, e.g. continuous integration,
> static analysis.
I would advice only to move it from Launchpad to GitHub if there is an
actual problem with the current situation that cannot be easily solved
on Launchpad.

I think the freedom point of Stephane is also important.  I am not sure
about the how well Launchpad would score if the FSF evaluated them,
though my guess is they would score higher than GitHub.

- Marco