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Re: What ever happened to our plan to move back to GitHub?

 

On Jul 14, 2011, at 1:35 PM, Andrew Garner wrote:

> I guess I never replied to that thread.  Oops. :)
> 
> I am ambivalent about moving bugs back to github - the issue tracker
> is fine now.  I don't especially enjoy working with launchpad's bug
> system since it's slow (like molasses) and more complex than we need.
> The mailing list is more of a sticking point I guess - I'm personally
> fine with googlegroups but I know it annoyed others.  I like that
> googlegroups reply-to goes back to the group (IIRC) - that's always
> annoyed me about launchpad's lists.

I might have been the only one but yes it drove me up a wall :) But I'm ok with going back there if that's what the majority thinks and there's value to doing so.

> 
> I am a bit concerned about causing any confusion from moving back and
> forth. There is also the point raised by other projects that github is
> definitely more developer oriented and perhaps not so comfortable for
> an end-user as launchpad may be?

Yeah, I do agree with that. LP isn't flawless in that regard but does seem to be easier as an end-user than GitHub IMO.

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