[LightDM] Proposal: Move LightDM code hosting from Launchpad to GitHub

Darren Spruell
2017-09-20T02:53:58Z

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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