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Canonical Plans a Version-Tracking Tool for Devs

Posted by timothy on from the even-fresher-meat dept.

daria42 writes "Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, has started work on a new project which aims to make easier for Linux developers to find the latest open source software updates, no matter which distribution they are contributing to. The effort encompasses distributed bug tracking, revision control, language translations and more. Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth wants Ubuntu to take advantage of the software, saying: 'As the framework [for using code from across the community] sets, hopefully we are at the centre of it. Further down the pipeline we may need to differentiate on other grounds.'"

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  1. Launchpad by natrius · · Score: 5, Informative

    The summary gives the impression that Launchpad development just started, but it's been around for a few months at least. Bug reports from the unsupported packages in Ubuntu's latest release go to Malone, which is a part of Launchpad. Also, I think people have been using Rosetta to do translations for Hoary as well. It looks promising.

    Before you ask, Launchpad isn't open source. Yet.

  2. Re:This doesn't really fix the problem. by natrius · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Eventually, this will be just as usefull as CVS/Subversioni is right now for open source projects on different distributions.

    That's because CVS and Subversion are centralized versioning systems. Bazaar and other Arch-like systems aren't. The way things are right now, bug tracking systems and code versioning systems are completely separate. If you can integrate a bug tracking system with something like Arch and retain the distributed nature of it all, then it will definitely be useful for multiple distributions. It's all patches. I think this is the direction they're trying to take things.