re: Canonical and Google, I thought Google was paying, not Canonical :
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Originally posted by bridgman View Postre: Canonical and Google, I thought Google was paying, not Canonical :
http://blog.canonical.com/?p=294
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Originally posted by deanjo View PostA good community commits it's fixes to the upstream projects as well rather then sitting on them and relying on someone else to seek them out and pull them in.
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Originally posted by some-guy View PostDon't forget about ubuntuone, and launchpad was just recently open-sourced (afaik some of it is still proprietary)
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Originally posted by deanjo View PostBoth of which are pretty much ubuntu specific vs something like the openSUSE build service which allows building of packages for pretty much any mainstream distro and doesn't give a rats ass what distro you use at home.
http://en.opensuse.org/Build_Service..._build_targets
Also this doesn't provide patches upstream is pretty much bullshit. Take a look at http://patches.ubuntu.com/ and tell me they are keeping the patches to themselves. Take a look at any bug report, I dare you. They coordinate with upstream as closely as they can and actually *reject* a large number of patches to avoid diverging from upstream too much.
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Originally posted by BlackStar View PostLaunchpad is a project hosting service (like Sourceforge), not a build service.Launchpad is a software collaboration platform that provides:
Last edited by deanjo; 01 December 2009, 02:53 PM.
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Originally posted by BlackStar View PostLaunchpad is a project hosting service (like Sourceforge), not a build service.Also this doesn't provide patches upstream is pretty much bullshit. Take a look at http://patches.ubuntu.com/
Characteristic demagogy of ubuntu fan
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