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["Patrick" <pmaupin@...>]

--- In kicad-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Dick Hollenbeck <dick@...> wrote:
>
> Patrick wrote:
> > --- In kicad-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, kicad-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >   
> >> Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the 
> >> kicad-devel group:
> >>
> >> What is your first choice? 
> >>
> >> o Keep things the same 
> >> o An outright move of the source code home to Launchpad.net 
> >> o Stay at sourceforge and switch to Trac and away from Tracker whileat the same time putting Trac onto a distributed VCS 
> >>     
> >
> > In the poll question on VCS, you had google code as one of the answers,but not in this poll question. Google code has both VCS and issue tracker, which I think work fine. They are simple and understandable. I haven't looked at Launchpad yet. If there is something compelling at launchpad, that's great, but I download code from google all the time and it seems fine.
> >
> >   
> >> To vote, please visit the following web page:
> >> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-devel/surveys?id=2564480 
> >>
> >> Note: Please do not reply to this message. Poll votes are 
> >> not collected via email. To vote, you must go to the Yahoo! Groups 
> >> web site listed above.
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >>     
> 
> 
> 
> I was unimpressed with what Google are offering, enough so to say we 
> should not even consider it, we have better options.
> 
> I spent time there, and at launchpad, and looking at trac.
> 
> 
> Dick
>

That's fine; I was just confused that Google showed up in one poll questionand not in the other one. I haven't looked at lauchpad but can well believe that they treat code maintenance as more of a core technology than Google does (or at least than what Google exposes to the public). Although Google and Canonical both use and contribute heavily to open source, Google's cash cow, in theory, doesn't require them to support open source, while Canonical is trying to compete head-on with Red Hat, and to do that they have to treat open source as their lifeblood.

Regards,
Pat