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[Cassidy James <cassidy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris,

Launchpad is technically open source, but it's designed to be used only 
on Canonical's infrastructure and they aren't interested in making it 
run elsewhere. It's open source so that people can help Canonical out, 
not so people can set up their own instances.

Regards,
Cassidy James

On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 5:13 AM, Chris Timberlake <game64@xxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> Fabian,
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't launchpad open source? There's been 
> much talk about Launchpad mock-ups and redesigns, etc. Maybe you 
> could simply fork launchpad as opposed to creating a replacement?
>
> http://blog.launchpad.net/general/launchpad-is-now-open-source
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Fabian Thoma 
> <fabian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > So I'm gonna enter that conversation here, if we want to have 
> > automated builds for debian based systems not on Launchpad we really 
> > need the following:
> > Hardware (we already got a virtual server capable of building the 
> > daily isos, so it should be able to handle this, if needed we can 
> > also go dedicated)
> > a build daemon, which is buildd that debian uses for it's build 
> > machines (we can use that 1 to 1 like launchpad)
> > a system managing builds and versions (which I'd prefer to build or 
> > use something highly flexible and adapt)
> > a repo server that hosts the packages and can support high traffic 
> > (that's a matter of renting it really)
> > I don't see any issue in these things, especially the hardware and 
> > build based stuff. Building something to manage the builds and 
> > versions should not be a big deal either, but the real question has 
> > to be if we want to go and diy a Launchpad replacement or use 
> > something finished and integrate the build part into it.
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 11:42 PM, Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff 
> > <sergey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > what do we need in order to get our own repo and automated build 
> > > > infrastructure? Is it a hardware issue? 
> > >
> > > A lot of things I'm afraid. Off the top of my head, the list is as 
> > > follows:
> > > hardware
> > > pbuilder configuration (mostly done)
> > > some piece of software to accept dput uploads (should exist, but 
> > > not found yet)
> > > some piece of software to create and maintain the repository 
> > > (should exist, but not found yet)
> > > lots of integration scripts to write and secondary systems to set 
> > > up (mailer to report failed builds, etc)
> > > some UI to be able to make sense of all that and manage the setup 
> > > (probably doesn't exist)
> > > --
> > > Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff
> > > OS architect @ elementary
> > >
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